Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular interest to the many Harvard yachtmen will be this new book setting forth the history and romance of the more than 200 lighthouses and lightships of the New England coast, scattered between West Quoddy Head and the entrance to Long Island Sound. A knowledge of the stories of the lighthouses will add greatly to the pleasure to be derived from a sail along these shores...
...elements, in the Jack London tradition. Of course there is a storm, but it is not the shipwrecking kind; and on shore, there is a native chief who falls in love with Miss Cooper, but he is practical rather than masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that precludes the possibilities of stirring adventure. The reader acquires this contemporary angle, and asks no more from...
...retreats to the ocean, to return again at some more opportune time, always under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious to her surroundings and it was possible to approach sufficiently near to take pictures...
...kind of girl who gives and goes. In her coolly amorous passage through the social high spots of Europe, she has many calls on her generosity. When the story opens, she has just left one lover, an unripe Viennese poet, after an idyllic two weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer, simple-minded Wilhelm, Bolshevik Kyril Sergeivitch, English Soldier Felix...
...seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof...