Word: scud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's champion. After three days of racing, over a six-mile course, 22-year-old Robert Levin of Beverly, N. J. hoisted the championship pennant-scoring 109½ points with his Bad News. Runner-up, only 5½ points behind, was spunky Sally Wilcox and her Scud-a better skipper by three points than oldtimer Merrill and J. Ramsey Speer Jr., chairman of the Regatta Committee...
...first to use the line, "And the villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line "I've got to see a man about...
With a spanking breeze on the quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...south they came, slipping through the low scud over Concord, over Claremont, over the Junction, and over Hanover: 36 planes of the Army Air Corps, throbbing like malignant bees. Perhaps they followed the thin silver ribbon of the Connecticut up from Springfield, maybe they streaked up the distended threads of the B. & M. from Boston. At any rate, it was perfectly evident that the Army Air Corps was protecting New England from the "enemy...
...Baluk is dragged off the pyre still alive to lead the tribe against the milling, trampling, stampeding, incredible game herd. Dagwan is sent away for "the slow death" (starvation) while the tribe feasts and laughs and toboggans. The silent enemy, Hunger, snarls his defeat from the lowering arctic storm-scud...