Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peered through their binoculars, made marks on charts, hoisted shining flags and sent curious wireless messages. But always the heaving ships cut new furrows, new foamy patterns. This was the mathematics of conflict, the grim, immediate study of warfare by men trained to stand on vibrating decks, coolly directing sea-born Waterloos amid a holocaust of explosions...
...Baldwin is a veteran of the Argonne. His Army experiences followed nine months of naval mal de mer. His wife, Mrs. Marthe Guillon Verne Baldwin, is a niece of famed Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Politically, Mr. Baldwin echoes Mrs. Pratt, of whom he is a close friend...
Another room is devoted to reptiles and ancient fish. A collection of marine reptiles occupies one wall of this room, and includes in particular reptiles which were alive at the time when this form of marine life dominated the sea...
...sea and its sagas seldom fail to be interesting, and this account of last summer's ocean race to Spain is no exception to the rule. All the details of the trip over in the winning schooner, the "Elena," a boat only a little more than 100 feet long over all, are told by the daughter of the "Skipper" and owner...
This is one of the best plays of the sea son. 'Only one other play (Wings Over Europe) is nearly so well-cast for types, but it is possible to mention more notable parts most notably played. Erin O'Brien-Moore is beautiful and restrained as Rose Maurrant. Robert Kelly is a powerful Frank Maurrant. Best of all the characterizations is Beulah Bondi's Emma Jones...