Word: gale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dawson-Scott supplied the ghoulish plot in a novel named The Haunting. Scene is a village in Cornwall where Gale and his young sailor brother Pascoe quarrel over a hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
...mediocres. For his trump cards this season Longone will present Lehmann in Der Rosenkavalier, Prague's Mila Kocava in her U. S. debut, pretty Helen Jepson as the profligate Thais, the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma, the world premiere of Ethel Leginska's Gale with John Charles Thomas singing and the bushy-haired composer conducting...
...thoughtful, learned, serious people as paid subscribers. Press run of the first issue will be 8,000 copies. Thicker than most religious publications, Christendom is better printed, has a secular-looking red cover. Full of theology, philosophy and urbane erudition, the first issue contains a short story by Zona Gale, articles by the Archbishop of York, Philosophers William Ernest Hocking and Gregory Vlastos, Dean Willard L. Sperry of Harvard Divinity School, Theologian John C. Bennett, Executive Secretary Claris Edwin Silcox of Canada's Social Service Council...
...readers with 100,000,000 words of pulp fiction per year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...
...yacht of Philadelphia Sportsman Albert R. G. Welsh, bound with a captain and crew of three for the Mediterranean. A 55-ft., two-masted auxiliary schooner, she had sailed to Bermuda from the U. S., seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...