Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GENTLEMAN OVERBOARD-Herbert Clyde Lewis-Viking...
...What would it feel like to fall off a ship in mid-Pacific? Few men have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what it feels like. His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective for being so quietly, matter-of-factly written...
...same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate himself with their philosophy...
...along as passengers. The professor and the captain liked each other's philosophizing. In mid-Atlantic the Hestia hit a hurricane, sent out an SOS intercepted by a Cunard liner with Sir John aboard. During the black hours before the liner reached the battered Hestia, the bosun went overboard, the chief engineer died, the professor's daughter found out the sullen first mate was not a gentleman, he was merely insane. Lyn was transferred to the liner. The Hestia disappeared in the darkness, was reported lost...
...casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each Japanese hit was like "hundreds of iron rails . . . dropped from a great height upon the deck." As she heeled over, her captain, his bald head bleeding, shooed his men overboard, roared at them to swim away from the ship. He was still on the bridge when she turned turtle...