Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often attended them. ¶ "The evolution flurry has done one great good in America, since it has shown the Darwinian theory to be harmless and useless. We know spiritual certitudes are due to intuition and not to learning. As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh.-¶Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis' carping at evangelicanism) "represents a huge ocean of mud" contains "barnyard piffle" and "garage gossip." ¶ Of tolerance: "It is up to us to show the Jews what we mean by properly living our own religion, showing them...
...pointed to as a potent reserve behind the national arms for peace or war, administered the Scout oath to their visitors. They presented twelve of the notables with belts, though General Bullard was the only dignitary slim-waisted enough to wear his gift. Governor Smith was persuaded to go fishing and promptly caught a fish four feet long. It was a wooden fish which the Scouts had previously attached to his line...
Honest merchants of Ostend, Belgium, were unable last week to supply their regular customers with fish. There was a shortage of this commodity, because wholesalers had sold the majority of the fish to hotels for banquets and tête-à-tête parties of President Arthur H. Sapp and his 8,000 fellows in Rotary International-many of them with their wives, the "Rotary Anns"-assembled in annual convention (TIME, June...
Died. Baroness Nancy Fish Barnum Callius d'Arengian; onetime wife of Phineas Taylor Barnum, famed U. S. showman; in Paris. After Mr. Barnum's death in 1891 she married Demetrius Callius Bey, Greek, and after his death-D'Alexandry d'Arengian, Frenchman...
Tillie the Toiler (Marion Davies, Matt Moore). According to Subtitle-Writer Ralph H. Spence, Tillie is the sort who wears two pairs of garters, "one to hold up her stockings and one to hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober...