Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another quirky apostrophe to the current culture appeared in last week's Christian Century. It read: "Anti-Semitic Fishermen Please Take Notice-A somewhat unusual episode in the campaign for better relations between Jews and Gentiles is the renaming of the 'Jew fish,' which hereafter is to be called the 'June fish,' at least in the New York aquarium. Jews protested that a fish 'so ugly and so named was an insult to their race...
...years ago. He had a wife named Rose, a son named Dante, a little daughter named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
Barracuda (fish...
London despatches quoted Dr. S. Parkes Cadman as saying in St. Martin's Church, London: ". . . As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh." Substituting "like" for "as" as a conjunction is a provincialism deprecated in good grammatical usage...
...McKelvie camp (named Tippi Winnie Kaska [House Beau-tiful]) the President permitted photographers to make pictures of him fishing. It was the first time the President had permitted picturization of his piscatorial accomplishments. A previous storm had disturbed the waters; the President caught no fish...