Word: lobster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first legal election in five months. Of all the Generals, Colonels and ex-Ambassadors who have seized the presidential chair this year, only one got his name on the ballot: Spanish-Irish Colonel Marmaduke Grove who was until election week a political exile on Robinson Crusoe's lobster-infested Mos-a-Tierra Island...
Potatoes & Protest. What caused Maine's voters to elect dapper, wisecracking, rabbit-lipped Louis Jefferson Brann as its fourth Democratic Governor since the Civil War and send two Wet Democrats out of three to Congress? A variety of causes evidently combined. In low lobster and potato prices Maine is resentfully aware of hard times. Hoover relief is slow reaching its rocky shores, its little towns, its forests and farms. Secretary Mills, stumping the State, urged voters to stand by the President and his party, thereby injecting the Hoover-Roosevelt issue into the campaign. A majority...
...wavelike rhythm underruns the lives of the Lunns, father and two sons. From troughs of idleness or unprofitable fishing caused by storms or glutted markets, they rise suddenly to crests of thrilling sea treasure-hunts with cod lines, lobster pots, salmon nets. The transition from crest to crest is marked by dull periods when the men's blood runs slow with the tedium of making a living. Then a glimpse of what the Fosdycks are out after, or a chance lobster hooked on a cod line starts the blood boiling up. It boils up first in devil-may-care Marney...
...three such fevers run their course is the book's story. Good luck with cod, phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older...
...Sahara as naturalist on a scientific expedition he took to writing adventure stories, a novel of African pygmy life, Toro of the Little People. The ache of War wounds made him drop writing, go home to become an inshore fisherman, try to market his invention of a collapsible indestructible lobster pot. Unsuccessful at that, he wrote Three Fevers, made of more indestructible materials even than his lobster pots...