Word: gales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aboard were Commen-clatore Ettore Modigliani.* as custodian of the pictures, and Signer Umberto Malossi, Fascist Police Inspector-General. Off the coast of Portugal the da Vinci wired that she was caught in a gale, then for two days while she was tossed and harried no word was heard. Captain Angelo Sturlese was on the bridge for 72 hours, the SOS of other ships sounding in his ears. When the Italian steamer Senatore Dali, foundering nearby, sent an SOS, Captain Sturlese despatched his tug to her. Dr. Modigliani in an ecstasy of apprehension made repeated trips to the hold...
...wind at a height of six miles. Up and down he frisked to study its prevalent direction. It blew steadily from the west. Visionary. Apollo Soucek foresaw the day of multi-motored transports roaring out of the west at these heights, driven by this raging gale, across the continent in half the standard 30 hrs. now needed...
...keeps its vigil with a measured thrum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" And never in the records has a wrong beat come- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" A brave and his bride once went for a sail And both of them perished in the terrible gale: But all that was heard was a single turn- There was just one beat of the Indian drum. The folks of the village were sad and glum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" They said to their chief: "What's the matter with the drum?" "Turn, turn, turn...
...earnest readers a bit of, as it were, inside information on the new building program. That is to say, all this will happen if the Bursar's office does not jack up his rent once more and turn the old fellow out in the teeth of a winter's gale...
...four days Floridans waited thus. Finally a 60-mile gale, offshoot of the loitering hurricane, whooshed down on Miami. Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed reports : Most destructive hurricane in Bahamian history. . . . Wracked Nassau for two days. . . . Velocity of gusts 180 miles. . . . Eight known dead. . . . Enormous destruction of property and shipping. . . . Only a few ships afloat. . . . No building escaped injury. . . . Sea wall broken, city flooded...