Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men may be indifferent, but their pets are certainly far from that. From a white rabbit to a goldfish, from a little dog to an owl, they live their different lives under the guidance of their Crimson caretakers...
...other end of the scale swim the goldfish. There are all types and varieties: cheap, ten cent fish, which do little else than swim lazily about in bowls; and expensive, showy, magnificent, beautifully plumed aquatic residents, which spend their time exhibiting class and breeding. Yet all are subject to more or less the same treatment at one time or another, whether they serve as the unsuspecting targets for the gibes of a cruel audience, or are just forgotten for a week by their feeders...
...Smart Goldfish. Goldfish are smart enough to go to the nearest food supply, found Kansas University's Raymond Holder Wheeler and T. J. Perkins, who tried to fool the fish...
...been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate one goldfish for the fish pool at the Governor's mansion. Said Governor Bilbo: "If you adopt this suggestion...
...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...