Word: pollywog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former pollywog members of the President's party have all survived [their Equator-crossing initiation], but while they are recuperating, this dispatch is being sent not by Mr. [Secretary Steve] Early but by the Senior Shellback himself...
Meanwhile, Franklin I continued aboard the Houston down the west coast of Mexico, battling yellow-tails, striped pargo, bluejacks, broomtailed groupers, losing a big shark. At the Equator, the usual elaborate horseplay for "pollywogs" who had never crossed it before was conducted by the "shellbacks." Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President. Chief shellback: Franklin Roosevelt...
...never walk down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...