Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three meanings of the adjective sucio are dirty, filthy, obscene. Long ago, the natives of Salvador stigmatized one of their rivers by naming it the Rio Sucio. Last week the lower reaches of this stream near Quezaltepeque were choked with dead, floating, stinking fish. There had been, guessed geologists, a minor earthquake near the remote headwaters of El Rio Sucio...
...Hair", the offering which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan, had as its first shot a color photo of Clara Bow feeding fish to a tired pelican. The point wasn't wholly clear to us at the moment, but just a little more of Clara Bow made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that...
...Dallas and Denver, which are Wet, he had cried out on "spies and snoopers." In Los Angeles, which is Dry, he explained that he, if President, would enforce the Volstead Act justly, faithfully and that Democrats had "bigger fish to fry than the red herring of Prohibition...
...exactitude," the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths made the "undignified fanatic" his globe. It was about twelve inches in diameter; its surface was carved with those bizarre and threatening shapes with which the ancients first identified the golden processionals of the sky. No celestial beast was missing; goat, unicorn, fish, lion, hurrying crab crowds its shining convexity. After the death of the astronomer, his globe became famous in the country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession of noble families enjoyed its possession; it was spoken of as "the great astronomical ball." A month ago, Baron Ralamb, its owner...
Chase Salmon Osborn used to be not Georgia's but Michigan's Governor, in 1911 and 1912. He rose to that office from the comparatively humble positions of postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (1889-93), then Michigan game & fish warden, then commissioner of railroads, then regent of the University of Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near...