Word: foams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next nightfall the division was south of the Strait. The old destroyers boiled up to 27 knots and the bones in their teeth broke and swept across the flush decks knee-deep in spray and foam...
Wave upon wave, coming in from the horizon, building up great mountains of water, building, coming, gathering, water and foam and sea power--then breaking against hard rock and warm sand, slapping with resounding boom, and washing back to the horizon again...
Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
...eight, and then more & more. We fired a first salvo of medium calibre shells. A fireball went up from a hit vessel and we immediately ceased firing. Powder clouds covered the water. One vessel turned aflame. Then the bow sank and a little later everything was covered by white foam. On the place where another vessel had just sunk only a long, smoking flame was visible...
...Trans-Lux fool you; it's called Virgin Bride, and it means just that. If you go with the intention of seeing a first rate, slightly risque comedy you won't be disappointed. But if you leave the Square with your tongue hanging out and a white foam drooling from your lips, you'll probably tear the seats out of the theatre before you've sat through half of the show. Because the sad truth is, Walter Winchell to the contrary notwithstanding, Virgin Bride is not the kind of show that will take much of the Old Howard's business...