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...contrivances baited with corn, catching up to 40 duck at one haul. Wardens have lately captured three 8-ft., home-made cannon which fire 2 Ib. of shot, kill up to 300 duck at a blast. Trappers ship out between 200.000 and 400.000 duck per year under label of seafood, are said to operate through a syndicate which smuggles the duck into city markets where they are presumably bought by individuals and clubs...
...Mencken was never an ogreish misanthrope. It did not take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy...
Although it is one of the biggest seafood companies, handling 65,000,000 lb. a year and running four big cold storage plants and 75 sales offices, Booth has not earned much money lately. In 1920 it paid its last preferred dividend; during its last reported fiscal year ending May 2, 1931, it lost $1,204,000. President of the company until he died by his own hand last year was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, publisher of Chicago's Journal of Commerce, fullback (Princeton) on Walter Camp's first (1889) All-American football team...
Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster...
...encouraging private trading in fish and caviar" 14 minor Soviet officials were shot at Astrakhan, since their villainy had resulted in a sales loss of $4,500,000 to the Government Seafood Trust. One hundred and nine accomplices in this orgy of "CounterRevolution" (highest Soviet crime) were sentenced to imprisonment...