Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published in the U.S. as The Innocent Voyage}, a perversely humorous best-seller of 1929, contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer which avoided one hurricane and ran smack into its undetected twin. Having thus ingeniously outwitted the meteorologists, he challenges Conrad with a tale that...
...city thoroughly. On each of these yearly cruises a foreign port is visited which is an added incentive to carry on the practical work and duties the students perform at sea. Two years ago the ships visited Panama while last year the ports of call were Kingston, Jamaica and San Juan...
Everett Franklin Bleiler, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts -- Boston Public Latin School...
...Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark but it had the disadvantage of being separated from Manhattan by a tedious, 15-mile series of traffic snags and bottlenecks...
...enjoy a Gilbert & Sullivan touch to reports from Jamaica...