Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement comes from Stockholm that a new play by Prince William is shortly to be put into rehearsal by the Swedish National Theatre. This time the Prince has essayed a drama dealing with life at sea, has entitled it On Board, and drawn for background upon the events surrounding the several active commands which he has held in the Swedish Navy. Considering the passion for seafaring which animates so many Scandinavians, the Prince's latest choice of subject matter is considered as well advised, if not so sensational, as his negroid theme of two years...
...which had been "captured" and announced to be "Aknout,' was discovered to be something and somewhere else. None the less, the recent French advance topped heights which form the watershed of Morocco. From now on they and the torrential rains of autumn will be moving down toward the sea. Despatches indicate that authoritative mappings placed the French and Spanish forces but 25 miles apart...
Through the booths the public wandered, goggling and prying, shyly stroking, timidly querying about improved sugar filters, acid-proof sewer ware, glass-enameled steel goods ("No, madam," said the guardian of a huge sea-blue bowl of this material, "we did not make the goldfish"), monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly...
...Roosevelt. They had come back to their base from the rugged Tian Shan mountains after losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, was to proceed at once with their heavy bag back to civilization, via Russian Turkestan and the Caspian Sea, collecting as he went. They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world...
...their counting houses, as if the Pied Piper were playing to them, out of their counting houses and down to the sea, to the boardwalk by the sea, to Atlantic City. And the cynics who thought that bankers' ears knew no music but the clinking of doubloons on pieces of eight, laughed themselves into face, saying: "Ah well, if it is not gold that calls them, it is at any rate a golden jubilee...