Word: swordfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes...
Arriving in Manhattan after a two-month cruise in the Gulf of California, William Beebe, popular authority on fish, revealed that for the first time in his life he had caught a big fish-a 207-lb. swordfish which he landed in 35 minutes...
...agreed to keep on the free list wood pulp and newsprint, crude asbestos, wood shingles (with limitations), lobsters, telegraph poles, undressed mink, beaver, muskrat and wolf skins, nickel ore, cobalt and quahaugs. Other items on which the U. S. duty was reduced: electric cooking stoves, lacrosse sticks, swordfish (if not frozen), eels, chubs, saugers and tullibees, pipe organs for churches, ice skates, alewives in bulk, rutabagas and polymerized or unpolymerized vinyl acetate...
...Catalina Island, Mrs. S. M. Douglas caught a handsome swordfish, wanted to mount it in her boudoir. Mrs. Douglas took her catch to Mrs. Charles Parker in Los Angeles, had it painted a delicate pink "to match the drapes." Taxidermist...
...great naval base in land-locked Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary of the Navy helped develop), a review of troops at the largest U. S. Army post (Schofield Barracks: 30,000 men). For the asking they would gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...