Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruise we shall take the schooner down the Atlantic coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Western coast. We shall take harpoon guns, fish lines, nets, rifles, tents for camping on shore, and an awning to spread over the deck, so that we can sleep out on hot nights. If anyone has a good boat, he can bring it along too. We are going in search of adventure, and we shall get some...
...Fish Fans...
...squat old boat on which Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies used to gather, eat fish, drink other things, discuss how to run Chicago, how to BOOST Chicago. They called it the Fish Fans' Club, because somebody caught a fish there once. Recently, the boat sprang a leak and squatted down in five feet of water. Also the club had $23,000 in debts which it was unable to meet, so it squatted down into defunction. Last week the furnishings of the club went under the hammer of Auctioneer Samuel L. Winternitz.* A picture of "Our Mayor...
...Goggling Fish...
...luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink, down, down, past goggling fish with drifting films of tails, past ribbons of ruffled seaweed, purple and brown," but she would be brave, she would...