Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighting to get ahead, Schrotel read every police book in sight, won a law degree at night from the Salmon P. Chase College at the local Y.M.C.A. He was a captain in 1948 when the Cincinnati civil service commission made a ruling which allowed him and 16 other young captains to take the competitive exams that would pick the successor to retiring Chief Eugene T. Weatherly, an old-style cop who used to sharpen his shooting eye by blazing away at the rats in his dingy office. Schrotel passed the exams with the record score of 99.33% and became Cincinnati...
Within the spectrum of comedy, Troilus offers much latitude. From this production there emerges a satirical approach, which, though not quite consistently applied, is eminently workable. Carrie Nye's Cressida, first in a lovely gray gown with salmon stole and parasol and later in sultry red velvet, is a southern belle-wether of wantonness (I half expected to hear the Duke of Mantua singing "La donna e mobile" in the wings). And Hiram Sherman brings the suave relish of a Kentucky colonel to the role of Pandarus...
...York Republican Nelson Rockefeller tucked a frangipani blossom behind his ear and finger-dipped poi and lomi-lomi salmon. California Democrat Pat Brown hoisted his considerable self onto a surfboard and got spectacularly dunked in the blue Pacific. North Carolina Democrat Terry Sanford rode water skis, Massachusetts Republican John Volpe wiggled a hula, Idaho Republican Robert Smylie and Hawaii Republican William Quinn paddled an outrigger canoe. It was the 53rd Governors' Conference, and the 31 Democrats and 16 Republicans who showed up in Honolulu last week leaned heavily...
...salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas...
...hooray to an old man on his birthday! Ain't that lovely? Ain't that grand? Come in, come in, Father Hugh! Come in here and say a grand hello to all the old friends! Look at them: they're leapin' around like salmon at the sight...