Word: headlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glimmer of gayety; blind gray headland and arid mountain, and trailing from his shoulders the infinite ocean. Poet Jeffers likes lengthy poems in which his long-limbed lines have room to move, but he sometimes cramps himself into briefer limits. In his latest collection he includes 24 short poems, three long ones...
Unlike the race of 1931, in which a British yachtsman was swept overboard and drowned, last week's ended without a catastrophe. Lloyd's agents, looking out from the Lizard (headland at the tip of Cornwall) for the yachts on their return voyage first sighted the Flame, a British cutter owned and designed by Charles E. Nicholson, who built Sir Thomas Lipton's last two Shamrocks. Two days later, the Flame blew into Cowes at dawn under a trysail because her mainsail had been ripped the day before. In an ocean race-where time allowances based...
...Devonshire there stands the grey walls of the most hated building in England. Sprawled along a bleak headland Dartmoor rises out of the wildest and most desolate stretch of land in all the British Isles. The original buildings were erected in 1809 to confine the French prisoners from the Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison...
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...artificial story. It was written by Arturo Mom, motion picture reviewer of La Nation of Buenos Aires, who apparently compiled it by pasting up some of his old notices. He includes a jailbreak, an attempted suicide, a marriage triangle, a race-with-death in fast cars along a headland. The one real and potentially effective suggestion of the picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled by Joseph Schildkraut's familiar affectations, his habit of speaking lines of conversation as though he were reciting a Macaulay essay. Silliest...