Word: manta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catch. In Sheffield, Ohio, a marine went fishing, caught a live pig. In the Mississippi, near New Orleans, the S.S. Amherst Victory weighed anchor, hauled up a four-ton, two-horned manta a four-ton, two-horned manta (devil fish...
Later Vance Breese really took the ship upstairs, and for the first time Designer Northrop saw his ugly duckling truly in her element. With her wheels tucked up, her humming propellers invisible, she looked like nothing more than an airborne Manta, slack-chinned, glowering through the orifices where her engines take their cooling air. Test Pilot Breese reported that she flew like any other good airplane...
...Picture. Mr. Washington Goes to Town opens in jail. Prisoner Wallingford (F. E. Miller) is bandying hoary quips in end-man idiom with Prisoner Schenectady (Manta Moreland). Sample: "Pork chops is the fondest things I is of." Then Wallingford reads in the paper that Schenectady's uncle has died and left him a hotel. So Schenectady falls asleep. The rest of the picture is his riotous dream...