Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon is ever read till its pictures are exhausted. The poem about the goldfish belonging to the old lady of "singularly wanton frame of mind" is evidently the work of a writer who can do still better. The ballad of the Rotunda pleases by reason of the popuarity of its subject, but no traffic sergeant in Cambridge, Mass., says "wolking" or "goil"--never...
Meanwhile in a nearby room stayed Deputy Marshall Henry Cunningham, assigned to "guard" the patient. It was rather a sinecure position-in fact, the Deputy spent much of his time strolling about Greenville, and watching the goldfish in the fountain before the hospital. There were six goldfish and the deputy (said despatches) amused themselves thinking up names for them...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?Anita Loos's siren snooping about for goldfish...
...respective environments. In the third place, she narrates copious anecdotes with an evident zest. From the tyrannical Mrs. Johnson who played the lady of better days with tempestuous zeal before her awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed...
...felt like a goldfish choked with bread...