Word: nautiluses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
...last week the little nautilus shell, more formally known as the Scandinavian Gold Cup, had become recognized as the world's No. 1 yachting trophy for small boats. Norway had won it seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year...
Before the last concert had taken place, Pittsfield was hit by the worst wind and rain storm in local history. Outside the little white auditorium, like a chambered nautilus, the hurricane howled. But to chamber-music fans, storms are merely a loud noise. When the lights went out, they rigged up light for the musicians from an automobile battery, listened away in the dark...
...else at the San Diego base but blows up handsomely when he finds Bob Mason (Chester Morris) in over-close proximity to Mrs. Dorgan (Dolores Del Rio). After Mrs. Dorgan has told the truth about this situation, Jack goes out to rescue Bob who is wrecked in the submarine Nautilus at a depth of 300 ft. Barring some crude miniature shots, the sequences dealing with the wreck and the rescue are so interesting technically that they compensate to a large extent for the bromidic situations and embarrassingly obvious dialog which lay the ground for them. Noteworthy is the photographic exposition...
Physician-Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Justice's father, was and still is popularly famed as a poet and essayist. But the fame of his pioneer work in conquering the scourge of puerperal (childbed) fever will be fresh when The Chambered Nautilus and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table are moldering on scholars' shelves. So, too, his own world has saluted Mr. Justice Holmes as the first jurist and first gentleman of his time. But the world a century hence may well honor him best as a great philosopher, whose creative thought chanced to be channelled into...