Word: funning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chesapeake Bay. Of the 52 Midwest lake-fishermen (48 men and four wives) who made the trip, 40 had never even seen salt water. Returning home with 700 fish, mostly hardheads and croakers, the first batch of angling excursionists felt quite satisfied that they had $40 worth of fun...
...lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors in the U. S. to send a representative (each country is limited to one entry) to compete in the international...
This was old-fashioned fun. The public bought and Exchange members, who in the last week in June made 66% of all short sales, scrambled to buy the shares that they had sold but did not own. Four tangible factors were credited with causing the market excitement...
Martin R. Miller's letter (TIME, July 10) concerning the technique of trapping banana fish, reminds me of the fun I used to have as a child, going out with my Uncle Josh to catch whifflepoofs. This, too, requires a great deal of piscatory skill...
...three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork is the poor man's implement; you can fight with it or work with it." When he was ordered never again to publish a political...