Word: catfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Main Chance. At Pryor, Okla., when his boat capsized, J. E. Stamper lost his shirt, hat, shoes, three rods & reels and the outboard motor, but managed to hold on to the 50-lb. catfish he was trying to land...
...fine form, Bryant missed only one entrance cue: between scenes he went aft to inspect his catfish line, and found it snagged. After wading in to pull it clear, he returned to the stage muddied and breathless in time to ad-lib to King Claudius : "I just caught the damndest, biggest fish...
...Catfish in Season. Perhaps the greatest change-and the hardest for Cap'n Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down...
Menke, whose three brothers help him run the Goldenrod, regularly rejects such schemes as turning the old boat into a nightclub. When business slumps, he says, "you can always throw a line overboard and catch a mess of catfish . . . Some day, maybe, we'll take her down the river again. Maybe next spring...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...