Word: harpoon
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...official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...
...vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled to the surface, it is inflated with air pumps, towed to the factory ship...
Shark-hunters have no luck with guns or dynamite. A dead shark sinks at once. In his Hawaiian days Sharkman Young used to rip open a dead horse, trail it behind his boat, harpoon the sharks as they swarmed to tear at the flesh. When he went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark...
...hunting a whale, which nearly upsets his boat with it's tail; dignified walruses which almost succeed in gnashing him with their tusks; caribou, of which a herd stampedes through a valley, over a hill, across a beach and into the water, where Mala and his companions harpoon them. There are, also, less healthy exercises to be seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala makes the mistake of lending his wife to a Nordic fur-trader who gets her tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under...
...roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively new. The sport of catching them off Montauk Point, L. I., and nearby Block Island is even newer, although broadbills are found the world over...