Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...review dealing with International questions of immediate and timely interest. Professor Coolidge was asked to become editor of the magazine, and agreed to do so, on the condition that there should also be a managing editor with headquarters in New York. This stipulation was agreed to, and Mr. Hamilton Fish Armstrong was appointed to the position of managing editor. Among the members of the Advisory Board is Mr. John W. Davis, former ambassador to England, and the active President of the Council of Foreign Affairs...
Ernest Mitchell, of Gloucester, however, has been among those few whose deeds have outstripped mere words. In the presence of His Honor of Mayor of Gloucester, right in the City Hall, he proved that he was master of the fish-skinning world. Undisturbed by the delighted howls of excited "rooters" and indifferent to the jeers of the jealous enemies, he removed the backbones and fins and skins from a quarter of a ton of codfish in just fifty-three minutes. He won by six fish, with his audience standing on the benches and shouting themselves hoarse over his achievement...
...timers as they left the hall chuckled to themselves and admitted that perhaps these young fellers weren't quite so dull as they seemed. To the ignorant metropolitan, unversed in the lore of the cod, the record is evidence that not even the introduction of machinery and fish factories has been able to deprive-fish skinning of its artistry. --The New York Tribune
What is wrong with this picture? Here is a man seated at a dinner table between three ladies a butter plate and a dish of soup. He is in evening dress. In and around his buttonhole is a secondhand rose. More vegetables and even soup and fish are scattered about on the table and the guests. Both his hands are, strangely enough immersed part way in a finger bowl. Offhand there seems to be nothing wrong with the picture. But the faults are glaring to one who has studied a few rules of etiquette. Even those...
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