IN HORATIO ALGER'S famous story, "Ragged Dick", a plucky boot shiner improves his lot through hard work, honesty and learning his "three Rs" (reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic).
The golden shiner, or American roach (Notemigonus cryseleucas), a larger, greenish and golden minnow attaining a length of 30 cm and a weight of 0.7 kg (1.5 pounds), is both edible and valuable as bait.
On May 30 , 1921 Dick Rowland, a young African American shoe shiner, was accused of assaulting a white elevator operator named Sarah Page in the elevator of a building in downtown Tulsa.
The North American cyprinid minnows comprise numerous species of small freshwater fishes that are known by such names as shiner (genera Notemigonus and Notropis) and bluntnose and fathead minnow (Pimephales).
Others include the 6-centimetre fathead minnow (P. promelas) and the common shiner (Notropis cornutus), a blue and silver minnow up to 20 cm long.
The reservoirs have been stocked artificially with fish of commercial importance, including whitefish, pike perch, golden shiner, and carp.
Commercially important species include pike, roach, chub, ide, rudd, rapfen, tench, barbel, alburnum, golden shiner, goldfish, carp, catfish, burbot, pike perch, perch, and ruff.
According to the Guardian, Garcia Marquez went up to Vargas Llosa, said, "Mario!" and got a punch in the eye (a shiner photographed by one of Garcia Marquez's friends).
Jenrry Mejia, a former shoe shiner from Santo Domingo, did not begin playing baseball until age fifteen, but what most endeared him to my tipster, I gathered, was his service, two years ago, with the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets' class-A team in the New York-Penn league.
Weatherbee knew he'd have a shiner for days, but was satisfied.
When Warren Bradley, Bill's father, goes to work in the morning, he walks halfway around the churchyard to the Crystal City State Bank, where, according to his wife, he "started out as a penny shiner" in 1921.
