Word: goldfishing
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...return to Washington a private affair. He complains often and bitterly about the intrusions of the presidency on his family life. Democrats who argue that the President will not run again in 1952 base their hunch principally on Bess Truman's well-known antipathy to life in a goldfish bowl...
...heartbreaking side of it was the innocence and misdirected sense of adventure with which most boys & girls began: the New York hearing made it obvious that many started in the same spirit in which they might have tried a high dive, swallowed a goldfish or taken up a fad for wearing pink bobby socks. In many a school it was a badge of daring and popularity. One student wrote in a theme: "I know that there is about four ways you can take it. Smoking, liquid, injecting and sniffing a powder. I know some friends that...
...When Stuart Symington took over as sole boss of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. last month, he announced that RFC affairs would henceforth be conducted in a goldfish bowl. Last week Stu Symington flipped two prize fish clear out of the RFC bowl and left them gasping...
...white house at Yasnaya Polyana was about as private as a goldfish bowl. From the '80s on, not a day passed but three or four total strangers dropped in to beg for money or advice, or simply to have a talk so they could say they had seen the great Leo Tolstoy...
...talked, he pointed occasionally at a bowl containing three goldfish, each named for one of his chief critics. He gave his audiences entertainment: a chorus line and a trick violinist. He raffled off door prizes and gave away free thimbles. Through it all he maintained such a beaming air of disarming good humor that Dearborn voters found him simply impossible to resist. Last week they voted to keep him in office. The vote: 16,872 to 12,732, the biggest margin he has ever rolled...