Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cathedral and by sheer force of statistics won first a mitre, then the Hat. A pistol bullet fired near him by ecstatic Mile, de Morfontaine puts him in mind of how the faith of his young days has vanished into labyrinthine dialectic. He dies of old age at sea, a benignant saint returning to his yellow disciples...
Margaret Morris will never launch a thousand ships in ancient Greece. She probably thinks ancient Greece can be removed by dry cleaning anyway. But many is the row boat would put to sea to see ankles like hers. The producers of "That's My Baby" knew that too well. They counted the row boats and called for Douglas MacLean to take command. But ankles are after all, especially Miss Morris' very slender supports for a feature film. Aud thus cometh comedy in the guise of a child who attaches himself to Douglas on land, on sea, on foam, and makes...
...Race. "They'r-r-re OFF!"... The long roar thundered like a wave, grumbled like a rising sea-surge through the crowd down the long stretch. The stands seemed to sway, to swell with it; hats and parasols and a foam of faces rose, hesitated for an instant on the top of the wave, settled slowly down into a whisperless silence. The horses moved down the stretch...
...deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...
Lethargic folk, who have not read Admiral Lord Fisher's Memories, are sure to jump when Mr. Bakeless reminds them that as long ago as 1907 "it seemed to Admiral Fisher [then First Sea Lord] simply a sagacious act on England's part to seize the German fleet when it was so very easy of accomplishment . . . probably without bloodshed...