Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winsted, Conn., one Wesley Cowles fished a stream, dropped his ring, fished on, caught a fish, found the ring inside...
...fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships as a gymnasium . . . learned to swim in the fish cars. . . . For a time I had a West Indian goat, four dogs, a parrot and a monkey, all living in peace and harmony in the garret. ... I went to the Dime Museum so often that I could have taken the place of the announcer as he described the India-rubber man; Jojo...
...sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking ponderously on his specially constructed truck in Waycross, Ga.; engulfing his daily 1,200 lb. of fish; thunderously snorting at his keeper. The unfortunate who really had died was not a circus aristocrat but a mere elephant-seal of the Hagenbeck-Wallace (Ringling-owned) Circus...
...sheet iron plated with tin) from which cans are cut and rolled; some make machinery for making cans; most make cans. Out of the Continental can factories cans roll as prolifically as bottles pour from the Owens plants. Two-thirds of them are "packers' cans" (for fruit, vegetables, fish); one-third are "general line cans" (for paints, chemicals, candy, tea, coffee...
...outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...