Word: swordfishing
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Major Max Fleischmann, yeast-man: "Three ladies, four gentlemen and myself, worth $200,000,000 in the aggregate, set out from Los Angeles last week in the steamer Oaxaca,* for the use of which I am paying $50,000 monthly, to seek swordfish and other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...
Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...
...England had first sailed into the grey shimmering bay that smelt of woods and wild grape, looking for something; liberty . . . freedom to worship God in their own manner . . . space to breathe. Thinking of these things, worrying as he pushed the little cart loaded with eels, haddock, cod, halibut, swordfish, Vanzetti spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer...
...Navigator. Buster Keaton is like President Coolidge. You either like him or you do not. If you are one of the latter, you will stay away from the box-office polls. Otherwise, you will watch him on shipboard, attacked by cannibals, prodded by swordfish. You will continue happily in his constituency...