Word: harpooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrister for The People then flung his sharpest harpoon. Had Randolph even used the very expression "old hack" to describe Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch (circ. 2,549,228)? Randolph freely admitted it, added: "So would you if you read the Sunday Dispatch. I suppose if Mr. Eade thought 'old hack' was a lie or a libel, he would have written...
...Income. Though he was enjoying a $50,000-a-year income by his 40s, the restless Yankee would not retire, kept insisting: "There is always a better way of doing almost anything." He kept finding it. An inveterate fisherman, he contrived a one-man kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt. He even found time to write a book on wildflowers...
...variously a theater manager, a New England preacher and Captain Ahab, spotlighted Actor Welles storms up and down the shadowy stage spewing and roaring blank verse, fights Ahab's final battle with the whale while standing on a table that protrudes into the center aisle, driving his imaginary harpoon into the audience...
...Swedish whaler captured Mocha in 1859. "He was old and worn out from his countless battles, and he was beyond struggling when the lance finally gouged into his lungs . . . When the Swedes got his carcass alongside, they found he was blind in his right eye and had 19 harpoon points corroding his leathery hide...
...Harpoon & Lavatory. In 1771, the society brought about the invention of a gun harpoon for whalers, became a clearinghouse for information on every improvement of the microscope and telescope. To provide the Royal Navy with, timber, it put up prizes for the planting of trees, was eventually credited with having inspired the planting of 50 million. It was the guiding spirit behind Captain Bligh's famous trip on the Bounty, gave him a gold medal for his report on the care of breadfruit trees. It inspired a horseless carriage (its fuel: gunpowder) the design of the first really practical...