Word: goldfishing
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...elixir of youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
...Michigan because Soapy is an uncommon politician. From his office on the second floor of the state capitol in Lansing, Governor Williams runs Michigan with a fine air of democracy and honest folksiness. His office door is never closed, and newsmen are privileged to wander in & out of his "goldfish bowl" (as he calls it); they listen in on state conferences. Soapy detests pomp and formality, sends his three youngsters to Lansing public schools. He lives well within his $22,500-a-year salary: there is only one maid to help Nancy run their rambling old house eight blocks from...
...commencement exercises before they left, President Bob Jones Jr. summed up their school's philosophy: "Bob Jones University students have never followed the trends of the day. Twenty years ago, they were not swallowing goldfish, and this spring there were no lingerie raids on our girls' dormitories . . . We do not send out graduates to turn the world upside down. The world is already upside down. We are sending you out with the message of the Gospel, which can turn men right side...
...Southworth of Riverdale Country School in New York. "This pantie snatching is a case of sensualism . . ." Considering the source, it was a crushing rebuke, for on March 31, 1939, when an undergraduate himself, Gordon Southworth had made his contribution to the craze of the year by swallowing 67 live goldfish at one sitting-and had eaten a peanut butter sandwich afterward...
Simultaneously, a Society for the Prevention of Goldfish Eating was formed and the fad-made period was dying a slow death. It was late April, and the rains came and examinations with them...