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From her birth on the foam of the Mediterranean to her final disappearance from the medieval German castle of Venusberg, Venus's career consisted of little but amatory adventures. Author de Miomandre's account does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it hits the high spots: her marriage with Vulcan, her bedazzlement of Paris, subsequent passages at arms with Mars, Anchises, Adonis, Hermes, Tannhauser. Venus's first, most famed intrigue, her affair with Mars, is related with great insight and sympathy: from this narration the wronged husband, Vulcan, emerges the hero, and Mars is shown...
...Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern rode up out of her "grave." Elated naval officers said the experiment was important because: 1) Never before had a submarine been thus raised by air in the open sea; 2) never before had a submarine so large as the V-4 been...
...rugby match at Marmande, France, between Marmande and Bergerac, a Marmande player nearly succeeded in strangling Beausoleil, the Bergerac captain. As Beausoleil was dragged off the field unconscious, his tongue hanging out, foam on his mouth, onlookers shouted, "Well done! Kill...
Bright-flying foam-drops stung
...silent and vanishing like smoke; it was scattered like foam...