Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption...
...last decades Americans have become great travellers, and the thrill of seeing the American flag in a foreign port has become the experience of many millions. A desire to see American ships in every port has been added to the old romantic notion of reviving the glories of the clipper ship...
...library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet...
...totally opposed tradition was the exhibition of the Guild of Boston Artists which also opened last week. This group has always sought to preserve the manner of the old Boston School, rigorous, conservative, fastidious. Pictures of ships, girls, countrysides, they presented in their exhibition ?tall Boston clipper-ships, New England girls, New England landscapes etched in pearly monotones. Mr. Tarbell is represented by the type of quiet interior which won him notice at other of the Guild's exhibits; Mr. Paxton likewise with an interior, suave, adept ?a girl holding a cup, surfaces of flesh, porcelain, fabric, exquisitely...
...American department store has developed trade and commerce as fully as the old clipper ships ever did. It was the American department store that elevated the buying and selling of merchandise to the dignity of a profession and established standards as high as any other honorable enterprise...