Word: hammocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second version as against the Admiralty's 2O-minute one. Marchant's story seemed to refute Prien's belief that he hit Repulse. Marchant told of four hits on Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently Prien's first torpedo, which he thought hit Repulse (or some other ship*), did not go past Royal...
Novelist Godden is 31, has spent most of her life in India, knows her hill country. Little happens in Black Narcissus, but the charm of the characters, and their talk, keep the story moving. U. S. readers will find few better novels for hammock reading this summer...
...Best hammock reading so far this season is The Brandons, a deft tale of pixillated English gentry. Author Thirkell (August Folly, Pomfret Towers) is the at tractive, 49-year-old granddaughter of pre-Raphaelite Painter Burne-Jones, a cousin of ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and of Rudyard Kipling, who tried out many of his Just So Stories...
Sitting under the overturned plane, which was only good "to hang my hammock on," Perry dreamed of the food at the dinner while three other passengers wandered off in search of water and never came back, according to a letter from him recently published in the Alumni Bulletin...
...There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him; For But rest - niggard and hours the and a naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus...