Word: kippered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successor the mystically Gothic Ralph Adams is busily altering. Manhattanites remember Christopher Grant La Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur actor. Ink is an ethnologist, .knows a vast deal about the Amerindians, was author of last year's Pulitzer Prize novel, Laughing...
Hard by stood one Jack Carter, horny-handed skipper of the drifter. "Tell me now," said Royal Edward, grave with interest, "when is a bloater a kipper...
...like this. When we catches one he's good fresh herring. When they salts him and hangs him up to dry he's a bloater. When they splits him down his middle and dries him some more, why then, Sir, he's a kipper...