Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chosen for the return trip because of her speed, the Memphis is less steady at sea than the battleship Texas, which took the President to Havana. While the Memphis rushed homewards at 25 knots, the Texas plowed along behind more slowly but on a more even keel...
...would have expected to meet a tough and a roughneck. Instead I was received and honored by a great big, kindly, genial, American, so bubbling over with plans for the betterment of his city that he talked about hardly anything but the plan to connect Chicago with the sea and make her America's greatest city...
Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...
...stained procession along a road through the country. Roughly 18 years later the story goes on again. This time it is a humble, yet triumphant continuity of miracles and splendid words; the pictures are those of a group of men talking in the dusk by the shore of a sea or walking together toward a city. At the centre of these pictures is the boy who stood in the temple; the face that was filled that day with exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years, through sandy eastern countries, he moves in a golden path...
...title poem, "Out of the East" is "a dramatic monologue with stage directions in verse." One is lost in poetic reveries during the stage directions. But the gong sounds, the curtain rises tonight and enchanting woman awaiting love and a lover by the sea. For a man "large and lovely and strong," she gasps. Man comes large and strong. His lovely quality is never revealed, however, for he stayed not long enough. He was too deaf to be lovely and heard not the final gasps of a child-bearing woman smothered in a comforting sea...