Word: goldfishing
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Salesman. In Philadelphia, the Better Business Bureau hunted an elusive peddler who sold tired lawnmower-pushers seed for strictly "two-inch grass." Research. At Troy, N.Y., an experimenting biologist proved to his own satisfaction that the larger a goldfish's eyes, the less it sees...
...when every 21-year-old who missed the first occasion will register for the draft. Franklin Roosevelt may well have signed the proclamation naming the day already, and if his sickness has prevented him, he will undoubtedly sign it his week. Ten days after the registration the well-worn goldfish bowl will again become the center of interest of thousand of eyes, and a new set of draftees will be well on their way to the potato peeling machines and the on-order tanks of our New Army...
...years ago a voracious Freshman was to wait only eight more days before he began the famous goldfish-eating craze, and things around the College certainly were not dull what with the swimming team trying to acquire a red Arctic goose for a mascot, with another wayward Yardling going out for a midnight snack in his brightest pajamas, and with the Crimson requiring its candidates to kiss all Radcliffe girls coming out of Fogg Art Museum...
...kissed by an ape at Dr. Voronoff's monkey farm near Menton, France, that young female operagoers at the Met banded themselves into "Lily Pons Fans," in imitation of the "Gerry-flappers" of Soprano Farrar 20 years ago. A Maryland town, whose chief industry is water lilies and goldfish, eight years ago publicized itself as well as the diva by taking the name Lilypons. The full flowering of this pun occurred when Lily Pons sang to the lily ponds, while politicos, from Maryland's Governor on down, listened in rapture. Last week at the Star-Spangled Ball...
Hampered by dense fog on his fight from Ponghkeepsic to Boston. Lothrop Withington, Jr. '42, former goldfish swallower, was forced to land his plane in an Uxbridge cornfield last night...