Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ranged in cases around the hall will be the Lindbergh equipment: parachutes, electrically heated clothes, sun helmets, mosquito netting, emergency food rations, landing flares, sextant, chronometers, goggles, stove, tent, cooking utensils, sledge, sea anchors, collapsible rubber boat with mast & sail, emergency outboard motor, fur boots, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, wireless sets, ship's log, maps, charts...
...play concerns itself with a very brief, but critical, episode in the lives of three people. Two are former French soldiers, just released from the service and about to sail for Canada; the other is Therese, a pretty barmaid in a small wineshop near the docks of a seacoast town in northern France...
...stars are all blinking as moonbeams sail...
...seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental mediocrity...
Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail. When the steamer is at rest, or barely making headway, the drag-sail trails below the surface. There it lies while the plane taxies up to the steamer's stern. As soon as the plane is in position, the Westphalen picks up speed, with the plane taxiing after her. The towing force lifts the drag-sail to the surface where it smooths the water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane...