Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Human vanity would come to the front, too, in supporting the sceptics. The scorn shown by the sharks for Mr. Heilner may not have been the fault of the fish but of the man. Even sharks have their preferences, and Mr. Heilner might not have come up to their standards. And who is the man who would admit himself to have physical qualifications so poor that a shark would not think him worth the eating? Far better not to offer him the opportunity...
...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Ellison, g. g., Gunther, Battone Herman, pt. pt., Lary Hartuett, c.pt c.pt., Ferrini, Fish Lane, 1d. 1d., Cornehlsen Mulliken, McSweeuy, 2d 2d, Snider Markweff, 3d. 3d., Breithut Harper, Hatch, c c., Stickler Park, 3a 3a, Gould McQuaid, Davidson, 2a 2a., B. Johnson, Moore Dreier, 1a 1a., Nova Murphy, o.h o.h., G. Johnson Wallace, Sanders, Glenn, Steiner. 1.h 1.h, Baboock...
...home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation and where, insouciantly clad in bathing suit, slippers and tennis hat he directed the unloading of his craft...
Later in the summer the expedition will go along the Arctic coast of Siberia, hunting for live and mummified animals, birds, fish...
March Hares. In 1921, this playfully preposterous comedy by Harry Wagstaff Gribble made two appearances on the Manhattan stage. Twice, with strenuous and pathetic spasms, like a fish in the grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...