Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final choice of the prize-winners will be made by a Board consisting of three distinguished writers. They are Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature" Elinor Wylie, author of "The Orphan Angel," and William McFee, author of "Command" and "Casuals of the Sea...
...rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care...
...never experienced such a comfortable journey, either by train, sea or car, and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment. One can powder one's nose in an airplane as easily as in a dressing room. When I wasn't watching the scenery beneath, I spent most of my time reading or in writing letters...
...beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over every obstacle, lake, river, mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists and out they swim, still in the line of the migration, until the last one is drowned. Only a few will have stayed behind, hibernating or lacking true lemming instinct, or perhaps so hardy that they have not felt the need for a more congenial home...
...play, a piece of cheese before bedtime brings on a good dream in which the secret chambers of a girl's mind are explored. Everywhere, the seeker finds the radiant image of her lover enshrined in fancy as President of the U. S., single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action unfolds before the fantastic beauty of Norman Bel Geddes' scenery. The magic...