Word: foamingly
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Still the waves piled over one another ribaldly, broke, boiled away. Then a loud report fetched all eyes aft. They saw a pontoon shoot clear of the combers and settle back into the ocean in a smother of foam. Quickly then another catapulted through the waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled...
...50th mile passed, the eagle reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam. The cook sought to lure it to alight and rest by spreading meat scraps upon the stern. The eagle soared once more by great effort, distanced the ship for an instant, suddenly appeared to faint in midair, fell thump upon the deck...
...well. They counted the row boats and called for Douglas MacLean to take command. But ankles are after all, especially Miss Morris' very slender supports for a feature film. Aud thus cometh comedy in the guise of a child who attaches himself to Douglas on land, on sea, on foam, and makes comedy stalk beside the ankles...
...Race. "They'r-r-re OFF!"... The long roar thundered like a wave, grumbled like a rising sea-surge through the crowd down the long stretch. The stands seemed to sway, to swell with it; hats and parasols and a foam of faces rose, hesitated for an instant on the top of the wave, settled slowly down into a whisperless silence. The horses moved down the stretch...
...only oasis is LaGuardia, sturdy, two-fisted Congressman, worthy foe of any man. He has no chance of keeping the proceedings impartial. His efforts will fall as flat as the foam on near-beer...