Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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this endeavor gathered formerly on that section of the melodramatic horizon managed by Rex Beach. He wrote of the Klondike and dance-hall nights; of the pure girl and the older blonde who loved the same man; of murmuring wastes of pine and snow. His men are all pure in their later incarnation; none of the boys would think of swearing at Rouletta or feeding her whisky...
...Etienne beach, near Hardelot, a short distance south of Boulogne, the sea deposited on the sands the bodies of 13 little boys. That was in the afternoon. Earlier in the day, more than a score of little boys had been sucked out to sea by a strong undercurrent in full view of 17 of their playmates and 4 priests. Priests and others plunged into the waves, rescued 12 boys; only 8 recovered consciousness. Then the sea began to return its little victims...
...speech, upon a white sheet spread in a dark place; who demonstrated a still stranger spark-spitting apparatus they called a "radio," by which the white men said they talked with their kind far south in the U. S.; who capped all by fitting together on the beach monstrous yellow-backed mechanical birds with red-white-and-blue tails, pushing them out on the water, poking them until they roared and soaring away in them high over the coastal glaciers and dizzy ledges where only little auks can live. Commander Richard E. Byrd of the naval aviation unit accompanying Explorer...
...Goose Woman, from Rex Beach's story of that name, was an opera star before her baby's birth withered her voice. By the time he has grown up, she is keeping geese and drinking gin in a smelly old shack. She hates him for her obscurity, impedes his business success and tries to muddle his marriage. Then he is charged with murder and at the last moment mother love conquers all. Louise Dresser gives an exceptionally good performance in another one you will probably like...
...last dizzy crotch beneath the eyrie, Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...