Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smashing the record of Lothrop Withington, Jr. '42, Frank Pope, a Junior at Franklin and Marshall College, swallowed three live goldfish today to take the intercollegiate championship...
...come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...
...wonderful the advantages boys have who go to Harvard with its background of 300 years of educational preeminence. Those of us who for financial reasons have to send our children to Wesleyan or Bowdoin just can't hope to give them an opportunity to learn how to swallow live goldfish. -Boston Globe...
...ever want $10 that bad again just let us know an we'll send it to keep you from becoming constipated," wrote one of Lothrop (goldfish-eater) Withington's more ardent correspondents yesterday...
Included in Withington's correspondence for the last week are a letter from the Animal Resoue League deploring the inhumane deed, an offer from the Goldfish-eating Club of New England for membership, and offer from the Raw Egg Club, an invitation for an exhibition form Roxbury, and the above quoted letter with picture enclosed from Pratt, Kansas...