Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle- ships Arkansas, Utah and New York will arrive off Annapolis on May 30. On June 6, the great cruise begins, down the Atlantic Coast and through the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle, then all the way back. Fifty-two days at sea, 39 days in port, 12,060 miles of travel will make up the itinerary...
...smart, satirical idea died somewhere in the transposition of this play from the author's brain to the manuscript, to the stage. Instead of provocative and shrewd sophistication, it offered nothing but lifeless conversation. Such accomplished performers as Margalo Gillmore and Grant Mitchell seemed seriously at sea...
Assymetrical Forms Ascending, Triangular Etude, Structures, Fairy Tale of the Orient, Projected Four-Dimensional Stage Settings for a Fantastic Play. Such were the compositions of Mr. Wilfred. On the screen, like dyes filtered through fathomless deep-sea canisters, colors fainted, burned, swelled, darkened, dwindled, incredibly clear; patterns crossed, shapes passed, cubes collided, vortices spun down through hell, sucking the sight with them, and the earth, like a small ball knitted by music out of cloud and fire, whirled voiceless through the gulf where sound and color merge. Amazed were the listeners, for surely those in the dark hall listened with...
...Lighthouse by the Sea. Just as Life has run dog pictures for years successfully, often with somewhat irrelevant humor, so dog pictures on the screen will prosper no matter how pertinent the application. This present sample has a superbly absurd story about the blind ancient who keeps the light, his lovely daughter, her marcelled boy friend. Smugglers and kidnapping. Police Dog Rin-Tin-Tin does most of the rescuing, lights the beacon on the fatal night. For most people he is an all-sufficing hero...
Admiral Jellicoe commanded the War until after the Battle of Jutland in 1916, when he was succeeded by Admiral Beatty. He then became First Sea Lord at the Admiralty and Chief of the Naval Staff. In 1920, he was appointed Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand, a position which he relinquished last August...