Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight many a resident of Newport, fashionable Rhode Island resort town, saw something few landlubbers ever see: a white whale. All week the great mammal hung close to shore, often displayed a 25-ft. expanse of white back...
When the white whale left, some observers thought it had headed up-coast toward New Bedford, whale-conscious Massachusetts town. Others thought it went across Narragansett Bay toward Block Island. Fanciful New Englanders said it might be the ghost of famed Moby Dick, returning to visit the region which he and Author Herman Melville put into literature. Whale-wise salts declared the creature was moping, as if it were sick...
Melville's Whale Phrase...
...must continue your investigation into the love-making of whales (TIME, March 24) it is unlikely that you will find anything more delicate nor more adequate than the language of Herman Melville in that greatest of all whale stories, Moby Dick: "When overflowing with mutual esteem; they salute one another more hominum...
...went to Holly wood permanently. He takes pleasure in insulting film magnates and commenting mockingly on their methods. Cast in The Sea Beast, made from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, he said: "Hollywood will have to invent a love-interest. Should I fall in love with the whale?" Dolores Costello was cast with him. He married her. He often forgets to shave, has worn the same hat ever since arriving in Hollywood, has his clothes sent from London. His best pictures were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beau Brummel. Mammy (Warner). It is strange but inescapably true that...