Word: poseidons
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...opposite side of the earth, in the Yellow Sea of Wei-hai-wei, the spanky new British submarine Poseidon came spuming to the surface like a dolphin after air. The hatches sprang open. The crew started clambering out. Thirty-one were on deck and 18 below when the Yuta, Chinese merchantman, smacked against the Poseidon's forward starboard side. In two minutes the Poseidon sank in 120 ft. of water...
While in the Yellow Sea the British rescue forces were frantically hunting for oily bubbles which would show where the Poseidon lay, one man popped to the surface. Then another. The Davis "lung'' had served them well. But the compressed air which had ejected them like torpedoes from the Poseidon's hatches had bruised them mortally. Four more men came through all right...
...with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast, driving rain, starvation and the steadfastness of a childhood sweetheart...
...large chorus have been assigned two lyrical passages which serve to break up the regular rounds of speeches by the three friends and Job's responses. At the beginning of the play occurs a colloquy between the Lord and The Adversary similar to that between Athene and Poseidon in "The Trojan Women" or to that of Apollo and Death in the "Alkestis," and with this is presented Job's calamity as a forceful prologue to the suffering caused later. In the debate that follows Job in his agony rejects the theology he had inherited. Gradually he works out for himself...
...complete cast is as follows: Leader of the chorus, J. W. Hewitt 2G. Peithetaerus, an Athenian, D. J. Clark 4G. and (in the chorus at the end), E. M. Waterhouse '97. Prometheus, C. W. Harvey 2G. Poseidon, D. Cameron 2G. Herakles, F. W. Doherty 1G. Triballos, a Barbarian God, P. Barry 1G. A Messenger, O. S. Tonks 3G. Royalty, a hand-maiden of Zeus, A. H. Rice '01. A. E. Hoyle '02. Attendants, I. J. Uhrich...