Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With far fewer sentimental soft spots than The Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show an equal talent for high-spirited folk humor...
...centuries fishermen on little (one square mile) Lake Nemi, 20 miles from Rome in the Alban Hills, reported mysterious fouling of their nets and shadowy hulks beneath the blue-grey water on clear days, told tall tales of two legendary floating palaces once belonging to monstrous Emperor Caligula, now rotting in the mud. In 1446 curious Cardinal Prospero Colonna made the first attempt to raise the pleasure barges, succeeded only in irreparably damaging their superstructures with the iron grappling hooks...
Last week the fishermen & farmers of the Althing handsomely voted not to depose their King but merely that, "having regard for the fact that the situation now created makes it impossible for His Majesty the King of Iceland to execute the royal power," it shall be vested "until further notice" in Icelandic Premier Hermann Jónasson & Cabinet...
Moving pictures taken by Joseph S. Stern '40, who spent last summer in Cartwright, Labrador on a Phillips Brooks House summer jobs scholarship, will be shown at that time. They will tell of the life of the fishermen of Newfoundland and Labrador, the activities of the Grenfell mission among them, and the duties of a volunteer working for the mission. Stern will supplement the pictures by a running commentary and an informal discussion of social activities in which the mission workers share...
Near Lillesand, on Norway's southeast tip, a British sub sent two torpedoes crashing into the hull of the 5,261-ton German freighter Rio de Janeiro. The world knew she had slammed a troop transport when Norwegian fishermen reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...