Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Loyalist destroyer Jose Luis Diez got up steam, weighed anchor, laid down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade to a Loyalist port...
Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...
Sailors have long called St. Paul "the cursed island." As a barren rock in the antarctic fringe of the bleak South Indian Ocean, 2,000 miles from Africa, India and Australia, French-owned St. Paul is seldom free from either mist or mystery, and last week both fell thicker than ever...
Situated on a ridge of rock that rises above the Passaic, N. J. meadows is the suburban town of Rutherford. Rising above the dead level of contemporary U. S. poetry is William Carlos Williams, one of the town's busiest doctors. A worshiper of beauty and music in a town that is short on both, he jots down poems in any free moment that his medical practice affords. Last month appeared his Complete Collected Poems (New Directions, $3). Unlike the run of poets, Williams does not use his poetry as an escape from his cramped environment...
...keynote of these artists is that "the mood of the country dominates its painters," and Wells is one who is strongly under the singular spell of the region. The seemingly unreal colors and the patterns of curving rock strata have been used by him as the basis for powerful and intricate designs. The Death Valley and Otowi landscapes are done in a swirling, rhythmic manner with different tones of brown which emphasize the bare aridness of the scene. The view of Pajaritc seems to indicate the influence of Cezanne upon Wells in the development of solid forms and is much...