Word: devilfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busily promoting railroads or flourishing what his opponents called his "oily, plausible pertinacity" in courtrooms, he was trying to raise the best sugar in Louisiana. For recreation, Benjamin would recite from memory "a wonderful stock" of verses (he was a passionate admirer of Tennyson), play whist, harpoon devilfish. His appreciation of good food and drink was vast...
Fortnight ago, after a year's notice, Japan ended the Convention, will presumably begin hunting seals in the sea. Reason given: seals were eating squid and devilfish sought by Japan's fishing fleet. Whatever the reason, it portends decimation or extermination for the seals. At the Pribilof killing grounds only the bachelors are slaughtered for the prime fur. In pelagic sealing hunters often shoot females with pups, often lose four out of five of the carcasses...