Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writers of modern times have succeeded in resurrecting the romance of the clipper ships with as fine a touch as Alfred Stanford, already well known for his authorship of Navigator", the story of Salem's great Nathaniel Bowditch. "Invitation to Danger" deserves its place on the shelf next to that now well known novel...
...Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There are no pretty girls...
...organ Along the Line that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet...
...that time, thousands of Confederate bonds were daily bought and sold on the London stock exchange. Mouth watering, Fisk conceived the shrewd scheme of hiring a fast clipper to start for England the moment Lee surrendered, sell hand over fist until official news of the defeat, then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before...
Thrilling wrecks, sudden death, storms, hungry months on a deserted island, cannibals, savage chiefs, heathen rites, drunkes traders, Spanish dons, rogues, murderous fights,--all crowd the pages of this true tale of the adventures of Captain John Cameron a salty sailor of the old clipper...