Word: sturgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month", the Blanchard-Dorner boys enjoy an envious name in their line. Generally they restrict their polling to "an extremely representative committee of outstanding artists and showmen," but this time they have evolved the idea of consulting the leading Universities, which include, besides Harvard, Hobart, Black Mountain, Sturgeon Bay Teachers, Little Creek, Yale, Ripon, C.N.C.N.C.N.C.Y., the Hobo College, Pierre Foundation of Budding Studs, Rollins, and the newly founded Society of Agrarian Aggies...
Last week lovers of verbal clarity placed the eldest of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's seven Justices on a pedestal beside Senator Glass. Up for decision had been a complex case involving an insurance company which insured "C. D. Brower, Jr. and/or the Sturgeon Bay Company," against liability for accidents except "to any employe of the assured. . . ." Brower was a trucker who had contracted to do a job for Sturgeon. When a Sturgeon employe was injured in a collision with a Brower employe the insurance company tried to wiggle out of paying Brower's damages by arguing that...
...back into the boat. The fish yanked him overboard again. His friends hauled him back. The fish took the boat in tow, hauled it 15 mi. in two and one-half hours, finally bit the line in two, escaped. The party agreed that the fish "looked like a sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like a whale." Next morning Congressman McClintic turned up at his office with bandaged hands. Said he: "I'm through with deep-sea fishing. An old bullhead and sun-perch man, with a reputation for veracity, ought never...
Very few of Fiske's pale paraphrases of barroom jokes, his irrelevant elaborations of smoking-room mythology, are as frankly dramatic as "Mr. Jones's Night Off." Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...