Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golden Fish (J.-Y. Cousteau; Columbia). Once upon a time there was a goldfish. It lived in a tank in a carnival booth and waited to be won by the holder of the lucky number. One day the goldfish saw a small boy looking into the tank. The boy wanted with all his heart to win the goldfish and take it home, but he had no money to bet with. The goldfish and the boy looked at each other for some time, wishing and wondering. Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor...
Blackbeard became upset, and was about to reach down into the water with his big, hairy hand when by accident he spilled the bottle of milk the boy was carrying. Since he was not really a mean man, but only hairy and unattractive to goldfish, he gave the boy two coins, one to pay for the milk, another to spend. The boy immediately put the extra coin on the right color and won the goldfish, which swam eagerly into the attendant...
...head of the National Security Resources Board. In April 1951, in the midst of the influence-peddling scandals that rocked the Administration, Truman asked Symington to take one more "load-of-coal" job for him: tidying up the scandal-ridden Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington opened up RFC records to goldfish-bowl scrutiny by the press, fired employees tangled in the influence-peddling web. It was dreary, thankless work. In early 1952, his cleanup chores done, he resigned and went back to St. Louis, intending to get back into moneymaking...
...Goldfish Bowl. Every labor organization must file comprehensive reports with the U.S. Secretary of Labor on the working of its constitution and bylaws as well as on all financial transactions, including large payments and loans to officers and staffers. Similar reports are required from management on all payments to union officers and to labor-relation consultants. Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in prison...
...many years have passed since then. But--to coin a phrase--the more things change the more they remain the same. In the 1930's the chief campus concern was: how many goldfish can a college student swallow at one sitting? Today, the great question seems to be this: how many students can inhabit a telephone booth at once? (A connection between the booth and the fish also arises from the fact that buthia is ancient Greek for "water animals...