Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sounding Lead. For years, no one could find the sunken hull. Other wreckage was found miles away. Mooncussers, scrabbling among the jetsam, found a piece of cabin from the Pentagoet, another steamer lost without trace. Had the ships rammed each other? Or had the Portland hit the bar? Or had she clawed off shore only to break up under the terrible pounding...
...hull was found. It was lying, sanded in, among huge boulders some four miles off shore and 145 feet down. Her superstructure swept away, she had gone down like a sounding lead in deep water...
Tallulah has always moved casually among the great and the near-great.* When she was a child in a Washington suburb, a kindly gentleman named Cordell Hull let her ride his ponies. She has swapped cabled pleasantries with her friend Winston Churchill. An admirer, Lord Beaverbrook, once gave her a party attended by such eager guests as the Aga Khan and Rudolph Valentino. Jock Whitney, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Kent, Ronald Colman-they have all flitted through the spotlight that trails Tallulah wherever she goes. In London, Lawrence of Arabia used...
Fifth--bow, Rotch; 2, Greene; 3, Pennoyer; 4, Osborne; 5, Hull; 6, Harris; 7, Taggart; stroke, Hutchinson; cox, Mason...
...John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws. Generally tame and frequently tedious, Minnie owed its gayest...