Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sank over $25,000,000 worth of allied shipping without killing a man, how he entertained his prisoners on seized luxuries and costly wines so that they protested against being set ashore, how he fled on his armed schooner through the ice floes of Cape Horn and eluded a waiting enemy squadron by fabricated wireless messages are details which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean...
GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...
...masted schooner "Chance", under the command of Columbus O'Donell Iselin '26, is now on its way to the waters off Bermuda. Iselin is leading an expedition to collect for the Museum of Comparative Zoology specimens of the flora and fauna of the middle Atlantic and to make a special study of the currents of the Gulf Stream...
...Indians were really what he liked. Feathers poised they darted about reckless in their atacks upon stage coach and prairie schooner, dauntless in their desire to make everything a success including their blank cartridges. Then what do you think happened? You just could never guess...
...Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding the safety of each crew. When she was wrecked at last upon a South...