Word: gales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nathaniel Rubinkam's sloop Rubaiyat: the 30th annual Chicago to Mackinac Island, Mich, yacht race, longest (331 mi.) fresh-water race in the world; for the second year in a row, after weathering a 60 m.p.h. gale which Rubinkam described as worse than anything he had ever experienced on the Atlantic; in elapsed time...
...company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish Military Academy acted as soldiers and courtiers. A gale the previous day had left a high sea running and the muffled thunder of waves played a direful counterpoint to the dialog...
...bear the hundred lashes of the gale...
...face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable quarters...
...from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to have done it; Weisendonck and Legge actually had a chance. But nothing could save any of them, not even Skinner's furious courage and skill, when their rusty old boat was caught in the gale that sent them all together on their last dive...