Word: ichthyologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engaged to a young attorney (Jeffrey Lynn) who is the pet of the Supreme Court. But she doesn't want to marry him, and she hates the way he calls her up during working hours. She is also carrying on a sort of wry flirtation with an aggressive ichthyologist (Don Taylor), who is trying, with no help from her, to put through a personal phone call direct to the President. So she stands both of them up in order to keep a date with a Navy lieutenant (Edmond O'Brien), who is the pet of the White House...
Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire yachtsman-ichthyologist; by Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt, 29, horsewoman, crack shot; after 10½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami. Grounds: desertion...
Like a bull walrus on a rock, old Louis II, Prince of Monaco, basked contentedly in the Mediterranean sun. At 75, Europe's No. 1 amateur ichthyologist and ruler of its smallest principality (370 acres, 1,761 Monégasques) might well feel that in history's game of chance, luck had been with him. Of all the Continent's occupied countries, Monaco was perhaps the least scarred...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...
...every ichthyologist knows, certain fish seem to possess an acutely developed weather sense: e.g., the loach, a species of carp (known in Germany as the "weather fish"), which becomes very lively when the barometer drops. From Cape Town last week came a whopping weather-fish story. Dr. Cecil von Bonde, South Africa's fisheries director, said he was testing a fish which seems able to forecast weather after death...