Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighter Grey Fleet was assumed to have the Caribbean under guard. Admiral Reeves's Blue force, with 1,200 marines on four troop ships, was out to take one or all of these strategic points: Ponce, San Juan, Culebra, St. Thomas. To an extent never before attempted, the fog of war enveloped the Caribbean. All communications were restricted, running lights extinguished. With Very rockets, destroyers torpedoed battleships. Battleships fired back with searchlights. Overhead the dirigible Macon droned along at 80 m.p.h. On the fifth and last day of the exercise, Admiral Reeves managed to land a strong detachment...
...give color and profile to anecdotes which would otherwise seem shapeless the cinema learned an easy trick from Grand Hotel. The mishaps and heroics of Channel Crossing occur on a boat from Dover to Calais. The minor passengers, all garrulous in British accents as thick as the fog that comes down half way across the Channel, are what alert cinemaddicts expect to find in such surroundings: a comic cuckold (Nigel Bruce), a terse captain, a deck steward with a teething baby. Lang performs with too much solemnity, but a sound formula and good acting by handsome Constance Cummings make...
...morning last week fog curled in thick shrouds around the little vessel. Useless was the 16,000 candlepower electric light glaring on her masthead. Every 15 seconds her fog whistle emitted a mournful blast. The beacon signal, sounded by a motor-driven key controlled by clockwork, went out continuously instead of on the fair weather schedule of 15 min. every hour. The submarine oscillograph, synchronized with the beacon, throbbed cyclic warnings through the water...
...liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash, while the beacon indicated the lightship to be three degrees off the starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play safe Captain Binks ordered the helmsmen to veer ten degrees farther to port. When the lightship was amazingly sighted dead ahead through the fog it was too late to avoid...
...BLACK FOG-Charles J. Dutton-Dodd, Mead ($2). Murder by poison gas in New England brings Detective Rogan out of pseudo-retirement...