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...breath asking scene of the spitfire over Dover which sets the powerful pace before the titles flash on the screen in Breaking the Sound Newton, buried in the sand up to his head and teaming eloquently at the rising tide in the title role of Black-beard Charlie Chaplin's imitation of a violin is with unsanforized legs in limelight...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadoye, | Title: Best Scenes of 1952 | 2/4/1953 | See Source »

...Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Year of the Mouse | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...island coves and inlets Pirates Morgan, Stede Bonnet and "Black-beard" Teach once lay in wait to raid New World shipping. From the Bahamas, Jamaica and Martinique, Civil War blockade runners made their night-bound, fog-shrouded dashes to Charleston and Wilmington. And in 1898, the Caribbean was invaded by an inept Spanish Fleet. It had the U. S. Atlantic seaboard in a dither of fright until old Admiral Cervera holed up in Santiago, Cuba, finally came out to have his ships shot down like ducks in a shooting gallery by a U. S. Fleet which was short on strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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