Word: dolphined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard a submarine at Guam, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (the Navy's No. 1 submariner) did honor last week to the feats of the undersea service-feats which must still remain unsung for reasons of security. Awarding medals to officers and enlisted men wearing the dolphin insignia, Nimitz announced their total accomplishment in the war against Japan: 1,119 ships sunk, aggregating 4,500,000 tons-more than half the ocean-going tonnage with which Japan started the war. In the last year, 2,000,000 tons went to the bottom...
Marguerite Bayliss, editor of the Horse Show Blue Book and author of The Matriarchy of the American Turf, has written a period (1820s) first novel that outstrips even such feminine rivals in romantic fantasy as Forever Amber and Green Dolphin Street. The Bolinvars, a story of thoroughbred horses, hounds and men, was first published in 1937 in a limited edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like...
...GREEN DOLPHIN STREET-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann...
...Mayer's underlings having pored over 99 manuscripts, Mr. Mayer handed out the money, for his $125,000-plus acquired screen rights which, at a generous estimate, he could have bought in the open market for $50,000. What he bought was Green Dolphin Street, by Britain's lushly lyrical Elizabeth Goudge 13th City of Bells; The Castle on the Hill). It was already the September choice of the Literary Guild. Flushed with good fortune, Publishers Coward-McCann (who got a $25,000 pourboire from Mr. Mayer) promptly prepared to increase the $10,000 they had already earmarked...
...Seniors and more appropriately for the Quickies the time has come. On your cap device there are two hands on the torch the sea Hous are bowed, and the dolphin has finished his dive. Neptunus Rex will soon become a reality...