Word: salmons
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...laid no eggs for 364 days, nearly set a record. But with one more day to go, Straining Annie produced a canary-sized pellet, was retired to the dinner table, to see how far she would go there. After a flood, Mayor Tripp found a school of young salmon stranded in a haystack. They were perfectly happy because they had never known any other life...
...picked a candidate for mayor, thought the election was in the bag, and went salmon-fishing off Anacostia Island. When he got back, he found his candidate had been scared out of the race by the late Samuel Davis Wilson, a loud. belchy, vigorous, utility-baiting, renegade Democrat, who campaigned with such ear-catching phrases as: "Before I get through I'll take...
Lyford refused to comment further on the part he expects to play in the venture beyond modestly comparing himself to the "stout-hearted salmon which fights its way upstream." Smiling as if at some secret pleasantry, he declined to elucidate this statement...
Last week the State of Michigan suddenly but soundlessly expanded-from 57,980 to 97,940 square miles. No cataclysm, no Blitzkrieg, not even litigation was the cause. The U. S. Bureau of the Census, which was already having trouble enough with its decennial count, simply capitulated to Chase Salmon Osborn...
...taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...