Word: seafoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway...
Meat-eating Eskimos suffer from nosebleed because their blood is over-rich in red cells. Dr. Rabinowitch thinks the overproduction of red cells is due to the abundance of copper in seafood. Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes, he believes, because long ago those who might have been susceptible died before they could breed susceptible children. He found only one case of what might have been cancer, several cases of arteriosclerosis among Eskimos living at the white settlements. No such cases were located among the most northerly, isolated Eskimos...
...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...