Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingredients, so that one can see . . . what dishes one can make from what one has on hand." Thus the possessor of a piece of liversausage will turn to page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name...
...Fish v. Hogan. One purple patch shone forth in a side-argument between Lawyer Frank J. Hogan of Washington, D. C. and U. S. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York. Mr. Hogan, attorney for Edward L. Doheny in the Fall-Doheny phases of the oil lease litigation, heard that Representative Fish had publicly listed jury-tampering among Dr. Doheny's doings. Since Mr. Doheny has yet another trial to stand, Lawyer Hogan remonstrated with Representative Fish lest his client be further misunderstood by the public. Representative Fish denied having cast upon Mr. Doheny any aspersions in addition to those...
Malolo. The Malolo, newest of the Matson Line's 38 boats, reached Honolulu last week on its maiden trip. "Malolo" in Hawaiian means "flying fish" and the island natives believe that flying fish are unlucky. Yet without reserve they joined a great pageant to welcome the new ship's arrival. It is 585 feet long and contains more than 100 rooms with bath. The Matson Line operates only on the Pacific, chiefly between the U. S. west coast and the Hawaiian Islands. It also has three boats running between San Francisco and Sydney, Australia...
...repu table naturalists of the period, pure pishtosh. But eight years spent among the strange leaves and unbelievable beetles of South America, among the cannibalistic Fuegian savages (with three of whom, notably one Jemmy Button, he became intimate), among the corals of the Pacific Islands and the animals and fish that swarmed in the dark oceans, made him less certain. He foresaw that "longing" was not the cause of one species merging into another. But he saw the merging, came to be assured that the world's fauna were not divided into rigorous tribes but were, rather...
...fossils are at present being remounted, and all possible cooperation will be given the University of Paris in its study of the ancient fish...