Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Flashing with occasional interludes of traditional Vikings at sea, these five novels chronicle mostly the Vikings on land with their women and priests, their passions and prickly consciences. Rich in detail of 14th century manners and morals, the books are in the best tradition of magnificent historical novel, but in their universality they reflect the sum of human drama...
...Hoover party left its island headquarters and motored 35 miles southward on the mainland to Angel Fish Creek. Two days of deep-sea fishing off the Florida Keys were in prospect. Though the actual angling would be done from small boats, two yachts served as living and sleeping quarters. One was the Amitie, owned by Capitalist Joseph H. Adams whose Belle Isle home, adjoining the Penney estate, shelters the Hoover press entourage. The other was the Saunterer, owned by Banker Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, Eastern Republican Treasurer during the cam paign. Banker Milbank was on board...
Capt. Fried lowered a lifeboat manned by young Chief Officer Harry Manning and eight oarsmen from the crew. The bow oar spoke Italian. In a shrieking wind, a tortured sea, the lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America...
...loud ocean was born in 1877 near the murmuring mills of Worcester, Mass. He is silver-haired and very shy. After the Antinöe disaster, the wife of the rescued captain tried to thank Rescuer Fried. "It is only one of the little things that happen at sea," he said...
...That designation delighted Newark's Mayor Jerome T. Congleton, who leaves no trick unturned to advance the importance of his city as a sea and air port, as a railroad terminal...