Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Flush, 7, cocker spaniel who played in The Barretts of Wimpole Street with Katharine Cornell for four years without ever, in 709 performances, missing his cue to give a squeaky, ingratiating bark; in Actress Cornell's home; at Sneden's Landing...
...Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets...
Slave Ship does not touch upon the sporting background of the bark that plays its title role, but records some of the more sombre legends which sailormen repeated about The Wanderer. She had been launched in blood, killing a workman who was pinioned on the ways as she slid down into the water. Fire and plague beset her voyages. Slaving, outlawed by international agreement in 1814, was practiced in the middle of the century by a few renegade skippers who risked hanging for the $600 to $1,000 per head they could obtain...
...Baxter) decided to quit slaving after the Sunday morning when, on his way to get drunk, he met Nancy (Elizabeth Allan) on her way to church. Failing to share his reformation, the Slave Ship crew shanghaied him and his bride, obtained the keys to the gun locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against...
Europeans use vacuum distillation to strip the flavor ingredients and vitamins from butter. Their vitamin concentrates are reported free from all taste, stable and suitable for mixture with foods. They also sublime hormones from urine, soap stock from fish, caffeine from coffee, quinine from cinchona bark...