Word: shellfishing
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...anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk," kashruth separates meat and milk dishes. Anything cooked...
...Lake, who has been building submarines since 1894, built this one as "the first purely commercial type in the world." His financier is M. S. Moss. Manhattan showman. They expect to sell their machines to the sponge, coral, pearl, nacre and edible shellfish industries. Mr. Lake, who at 66 still hopes to make a stable fortune from submarines, enthusiastically projects "possibilities for the submarine in the recovery of gold and oil, laying of submarine pipes and cables, surveys of harbors and coastal waters, and possibly naval use for life-saving and salvage operations...
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...