Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moana. A sort of travelog without a story, telling of life as it is really lived in the South Seas, not omitting the pains of becoming beautifully tattooed, or the little maid who scoops small fishes out of the sea and eats them while she chatters. Robert J. Flaherty, who did Nanook of the North, is the director...
Sounding. Into Manhattan steamed the French liner Paris, bearing storm scars, notables, a squad of German engineers and a new German device for deep-sea sounding with which the engineers had experimented on the way over from Havre. This device consisted of a gun on the port side, a microphone abreast on the keel's starboard side, a dial on the bridge. The gun fired a cartridge overside, which exploded a fathom under water. The microphone registered this explosion's last echo from the bottom, permitting the depth to be computed in fathoms...
...father's 13 children (he married thrice), four were newspaper people, James E., George H., Edward W., and herself. Of these only Edward W. survives with her, having founded the Scripps-McRae syndicate of 28 newspapers. Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard...
...Africa and said, "Some day I will go there." At the time he made the trip, Conrad was still a sailing captain, and had yet to write his first novel. The journey so weakened his health that he was forced into a retirement from the sea and shortly afterwards started writing in earnest...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...