Word: glamorland
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First to see the iceberg dead ahead of the superliner Glamorland was Able Seaman James Morgan, lookout in the crow's nest. He saw it too late. At the same moment: Priggish, successful First Class Passanger Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt...
Thus, by a series of simultaneous glimpses into different niches in the liner. Author Löhrke reiterates his climax, leaves you in suspense till he is ready to tell you what happened after the Glamorland struck. Once again he makes the round of the ship, picks up his people where he left them, stays with them this time till the Glamorland dives. Reminiscent of the Titanic disaster (1912), Deep Evening's ingenious scheme and sure fire subject would make an effective book even if it were badly written, which...
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