Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result the rum row along the Atlantic Coast has been largely broken up. Illegal importations by sea have become more and more sporadic, less and less successful...
...Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects a murderous crew of some two-score?all there were to be found, one feels and touches off the exhaustive store of anecdote in a rare, quirky style that smacks tartly of 18th Century...
...Eton and Cambridge graduate), with a weak, attentive face, took charge, in 1920, of the $120,000,000 Field estate, of which he was the principal heir, is interested in arts, charities, sports, has been a liberal contributor to scientific explorations, notably that of William Beebe to the Sargasso Sea. Captain Roald Amundsen invited him to serve on an advisory committee when he was making plans for his recent polar flight...
Skipper of the intellectual activities of the S. S. University was to be Dr. Charles F. Thwing, learned and widely traveled President Emeritus of Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). The relations of a sea-univer-sity's President with his students would necessarily be exceptionally intimate. One of many bright prospects seen for the trip was that of Dr. Thwing in the rôle of traveling companion, expounding Theology?he is an ordained minister ?to his followers after a visit to the grave of Confucius or a devil-service in Borneo; or Pedagogy?that is his specialty?after inspecting...
...seen the Punic triremes walk the sea...