Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officials. Nothing would be easier than to fortify a zone on either side of the canal, instead of garrisoning the whole Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power could possibly interfere. With its Mediterranean Base at Malta, the British Navy always has, and always will, control the sea, and would have no difficulty in maintaining a Monroe Doctrine for Egypt. On both sides Egypt is flanked by a limitless desert which no army could cross. . . . The British rule Egypt well; make no mistake about that. But it is for Empire revenue, not for self-defense. Even the Egyptians...
Knowing persons recalled that all smart sea captains make a practice of announcing or denying the occurrence of sea marvels-such as "worst storms," "first whales of the season" or "largest icebergs"-with intent to cause the names of their ships to appear in public prints. Indulgent pressmen did not mind printing the ships which went a-Gulf-Streaming last week: Homeric & Majestic, Mauretania and Columbus...
Equipped with Frederick O'Brien's book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when...
...film which came out of all of this is prettily produced, but fails to surprise. It is the old tale of white men's hellish conduct among South Sea natives. Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue), a good man gone to drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they...
There is nothing in the White Shadows of the South Seas as convincing as the tattooing of a native in that honest old film, Moana of the South Sea Islands...