Word: shellfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...little fact precious to ship operators was reported last week by Western Reserve University's Professor John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, shellfish which attach themselves to ship hulls and thereby impede speed, have a sense akin to the sense of smell which makes them recoil from certain chemicals. Professor Visscher's intention is to mix a chemical of disagreeable, repellent smell into the hull paint, thus prevent barnacles clinging...
...took pains to set forth the unsavory record and reputation of Author Means, ex-convict. Not so the Vancouver Sun, which announced its feature with a sheet made up like the front page of an unspeakably yellow journal, topped by a shrieking headline: "WAS PRESIDENT HARDING MURDERED? ... Did His Shellfish Illness in Vancouver Provide 'Alibi' for Subtle Poison Plot? ... 'I HAVE NO REGRETS,' SAID MRS. HARDING, OPPOSING AUTOPSY." Of Author Means the Sun said: "He knew (as no other living person) the entire confidential story of the White House. And Gaston Means-close mouthed, silent, efficient...