Word: pompano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curb Service. In Pompano, Fla., Samuel Bachinger, visiting an insurance broker to pay his automobile insurance premium, glanced out the window, saw a sign blow off the company's building and smack his Oldsmobile, promptly filed a claim...
...hotels and other big customers, one company has built big tile workrooms that are as gleaming as a Hollywood steam bath. The market lives up to its boast: "If it swims, we handle it." The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives...
Lower Prices. The fishermen's case was simple. They wanted to keep fish prices up at a time when wholesale fish prices had been falling. Having dined on pompano during the war, they did not want to go back to carp. Some fishermen had earned $10,000 or more a year on the "highliners," the few crack boats whose fish-wise captains could fill their boats to the gunwales. But most made under $5,000 a year...
...Paddy") Clarke's saloon at 55th Street, enlivened by the stuffed figure of the original four-legged Paddy, who used to deliver buckets of beer to regular patrons; Tim Costello's, jampacked with newspapermen, its walls decorated with original Thurber drawings; the fabulously expensive Chambord (pompano and pheasant...
...Wrong. The Gibbs edict, delivered from a pompano-less mouth, first appeared in the New York Sun. Furthermore, TIME'S Doe would have been a researcher, feminine, and not nervous...