Word: oystermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Shore oystermen, fishermen, farmers, who track the muck of river bottoms into her dim-lit office on the town's main street, she is "Miss Mollie." Some of them can remember when Miss Mollie used to give them candy in an envelope if there was no mail for them. In a town renowned for apocryphal anecdote, dignified little Miss Mollie has the rare distinction of figuring in none...
Greatest bane of Atlantic seaboard oystermen is not the four months without R but the family of Asteroidea-starfish. When a starfish wants an oyster, it wraps its arms around an oyster's shell and pulls. The oyster resists, but its shell-closing muscle eventually tires and its shell gapes. The starfish then intrudes its stomach into the opening, absorbs the oyster. To reduce the numbers of starfish preying on their beds, oystermen frequently drag frayed ropes over the sea bottom. The spiny skins of the starfish become entangled in the ropes and they are hauled to the surface...
...vacuous is vast Canada that the 90,000 assorted farmers, fox-breeders, lobster folk, oystermen and smugglers who have ample room on the 2,184 square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
Over at Popes Creek a fleetlet of oystermen were dredging the river mechanically, in open violation of the Maryland law which, to protect seedlings, forbids oyster gathering except by hand tongs. Sheriff Cooksey and his men sneaked their launches into Popes Creek, surrounded the poachers, captured...
...remark of H. R. H. last week, knowing U. S. oystermen smiled. Said...