Word: castaway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year a U. S. horse has been installed as favorite. Billy Barton, by Huon and out of Mary le Bas, owned by Howard Bruce of Baltimore, will carry many thousands of pounds...
...July 6: Castaway-rescuer Lundborg rescued from Nobile camp by Swedish Lieut. Shyberg...
...nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house with a wasting disease. But for a lovelorn governess the jewel would never have been found, glinting in the woolen tassel of a castaway cap. She lays the ghost, and saves the son, but all, alas, for his other sweetheart...
...Harvard is a mariner ship-wrecked on an island of shyness and ignorance, in a sea of indifference and unfamiliar conditions. Whether or not the metaphor be true, if we accept it we can, for once, answer the question as to what single book would best save a solitary castaway, and say boldly, in this case, the latest edition of the Harvard University Register...