Word: bligh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tampico harbor, headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain Bligh's epic voyage with the loyal crew of the Bounty...
Thus, They Knew What They Wanted, the cinema's third version of the late Sidney Howard's 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinning play, is principally a distinguished directorial exercise with three notable characterizations. A mustache, black curly hair, a soup-thick Italian accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they...
Death Revealed. Richard Edgar Christian, 52, ex-Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island (pop. 200) and direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, who founded the island colony in 1790 after leading a mutiny against Captain William Bligh aboard H. M. S. Bounty; on Pitcairn Island, June...
...politics, the Pacific is still a great waste of water filled with hidden reefs, treacherous winds and currents, Author Van Loon's book is no chart. His concern is with the explorers of this vast, lonely, misnamed ocean - from prehistoric Polynesian vikings and the Bounty's Captain Bligh, of open-boat fame, to Charles Darwin, who spent four highly uncomfortable years among its atolls, pondering the theory of the survival of the fittest, between bouts of seasickness aboard H. M. S. Beagle...