Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built and in which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind blowing the last brown leaves about the yard...
...This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns out to be a Chinese prince; and that the gambler is a criminal called The Sea Crab who, also concerned with patriotic problems, hopes to prevent the $100,000 from finding its way to China and to murder the prince. He succeeds in one of his objectives...
Entrepreneur Moss insisted on naming the new vessel Explorer. This disappointed Designer Lake who, because the small submarine can trundle sidewise over the sea floor, ached to call her Crab...
...outstanding feature of the race was the lead which Lowell House maintained up to the 1 1-2 mile mark, and which it lost only after a crab was caught by the number two man in the last 100 yards of the heat...
...last minute disorganization caused by the crab in the Lowell boat enabled Eliot to cross the line a bare quarter of a length ahead of its rival, after having occupied third place during the rest of the race. The outcome of the race is significant in that it was the first official inter-House crew contest this season of more than three quarters of a mile in length...