Word: shark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eating shark and a shark-stuffing octopus...
...Pedro, passengers on the liner Moerdyk beheld a duel between a huge octopus and a man-eating shark. For nearly an hour, the two writhed together, the shark snapping, plunging, the octopus limaceously twining. At length the octopus thrust a tentacle down the throat of the maneater, at which the latter, vomiting buckets of entrails, expired...
...spent seven months on an arctic whaling trip. He ended the expedition an experienced hand with the harpoon. The following year found him sliding down the west coast of Africa in a tiny steamer. Ensued storm, narrow escapes from shipwreck, fire at sea, native savages, blackwater fever, swimming in shark-infested waters, curious fish, all the relentless cruelty of "the great, sullen, brown Continent...
...will talk in contemptnous tones of the shark...
...happened to me once you are sent to New Jersey to hunt a man-eating shark just go to the Amsterdam Roof Gar- den and after about four hours telephone that the shark was last seen fluking his tall well outside the three-mile limit. If you are sent to burglarize some woman's flat for pictures say that the fire escape was blocked by parked babies. You'll have to match cynicism with cynicism...