Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less funny than the comments with which Dr. Abbot dressed up an astrophysical lecture in Rochester a few months ago. At that event learned Dr. Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale at its tail...
...existence for four years has been Lilypons, Md., so named by its postmaster and mayor, Clarence Cornelius Curtis Thomas who also owns its chief industry: 135 acres of water-lily ponds and one of the world's largest goldfish hatcheries. Although she has had her Christmas cards mailed from there for the past two years, Soprano Lily Pons visited Lilypons last week for the first time, was photographed trilling at its water lilies...
Third Gun. Herbert Hoover, still the Party's titular leader and now, after his public renunciation of Presidential ambitions (TIME, May 25), more popular than at any time since 1928, was welcomed at the Cleveland station by a cheering mob. He was kept in a political goldfish bowl until the hour of his speech. To prevent jealousy, forestall rumors of intrigue, no candidate or candidate's henchman was allowed to see him alone. In his rooms at the Hotel Cleveland he stood all day publicly beaming, greeting and pumping hands. Senator Vandenberg saw the ex-President...
...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
...Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example, her first meander, starting from a glass dragon on her mantelpiece, peters out with a goldfish in Hollywood that swooned during an earthquake and had to be revived with salt water...