Word: haddock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...
...Atlantic Ocean last week thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...result is satire that reflects not only or chiefly on Topsy but on the things she writes about. Her adventures, like those of all such week-to-week women-of-straw, are as varied as they are improbable. First engaged,'then married to a Mr. Haddock, who has lost his seat in Parliament but still takes himself seriously, Topsy stands in his stead, is elected hands down. As an M.P. she drafts many a portentous Bill aimed at the discomfiture of Puritans and the increase of gaiety. But motherhood, as it may to any married woman, comes to Topsy...
...underline, but she is not otherwise Victorian. An example of her style may remind you of Anita's Loos's famed blonde, but Topsy's fooling is not so sharp. "Only my dear don't think I don't utterly adore Americans because I merely do, and of course Haddock knows some perfectly blossomy ones, but that's the staggering thing about them, my dear you meet them in London and they seem quite lambs and then they go home to America and gun at each other, well anyhow...
Finn and Hattie (Paramount). This is a loose improvisation based on some incidents in Donald Ogden Stewart's Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad. It is not as funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface...