Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gentle Rain. In Portland, Ore., a woman in desperate need of an apartment submitted a want ad to the Oregonian, saying she would "get rid of pet chinchillas, toy poodle, Siamese cat, parakeet and goldfish, but would like to keep 9-year...
...really a matter of conformity. The roar of the twenties was also a sort of conformity; the goldfish swallowing, the ukuleles, 'coon coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and that was what made it delightful. The personality, the character, the eccentric were warmly welcomed in every group, on every campus. Novelty was pursued with feverish intensity; if you could discover a new way of spending time, flagpole sitting for instance, your reputation was immediately established. And, while girls were flapping and boys were...
...this time maybe, possibly, potentially, hopefully the result will be better. Better, richer than goldfish swallowing and flapping, better than the abortive product of the energetic twenties. This time, hopefully, there will be a meaning to uniqueness, a purpose to novelty. There is hope yet in the colleges, where, in those few spirits, the blood runs rich and the mind sharp...
Love Me Tender (20th Century-Fox). Is it a sausage? It is certainly smooth and damp-looking, but who ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...
...photomultiplier tubes are cooled by water flowing between them, and when the apparatus was at Los Alamos, goldfish were thriving in the water. Said Dr. Reines: "There is little interaction between neutrinos and goldfish...