Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chair of "English Literature", as he explains, "the term 'English' being considered clastic enough to cover both linguistic and literature courses. As "the successor of Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell" Bliss Perry recalls an uncomfortable feeling that the public was getting the impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey...
...Edward of Wales, aboard the Duke of Westminster's yacht, drew his pistol and fired repeatedly at some white fish with long tails seen leaping in the Corsican moonlight. Said Equerry Major Sir John Aird, "The sounds of the shots must have made the Corsicans think someone was murdering His Highness...
...graphic writing, Homer's account of Odysseus' one-punch victory over Irus, and of Epeios' equally effective slugging of Euryalos, make subsequent reports on fisticuffing seem cloudy and selfconscious. When Euryalos was hit, he leaped up "as when beneath the North Wind's ripple a fish leapeth" and was forthwith dragged from the ring with his legs trailing, spitting clotted blood, his head drooping awry...
Other deviations from wartime conditions: the menus for three meals a day for the duration of the maneuvers were printed by the Quartermaster Corps in a 41-page booklet. These included such items as oranges, milk, fresh eggs, cucumber salad, sliced peaches, corn on the cob, Rice Krispies, fish, ice cream, roast pork, potato salad, etc. Wherever possible farmers were hired to haul away garbage. Where soldiers had to bathe in creeks more than 5 ft. deep (two baths a week required) life guards were provided. Also 150 Army officer umpires were on hand to wave little red and white...
...Angeles after a fortnight of fun in Hawaii was Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. While bathing and basking in the sun there, he ran afoul Naval regulations by taking a cinema of the arrival of the Pan-American Clipper. Loyal Democrats paid $3 apiece for a raw fish and octopus banquet at which Boss Farley told them: "The United States is making reasonably steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere. You can take any index you please...