Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then Art My Own Love Four Sea Shanties "Johnny Harvard" Reddu...
...flare for entering realms not his own is a curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
...America, where Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil touch each other angularly, is Mt. Roraima, famed among travelers and explorers. It is a huge wall of red rock that rises, like a ruddy tree trunk, 1,500 ft. sheer above the surrounding plateau and altogether some 8,500 ft. above sea level. It seems unscalable...
...program follows: Peg-a-Ramsay Anon So sweet is she Anon Tobacco Hume Song of Momus to Mars Boyee A Kiss I begged Gamble She never told her love Haydn I'll sail upon the Dog-star Purcell Todtengrabers Heimweh Schubert Das Wandern Schubert (Solo and Chorus) Sea Shanties A-Roving (Capstan Shanty) Haul away Joe (Fore-sheet Shanty) What shall we do with the drunken sailor (Runaway Shanty) Shenandosh (Capstan Shanty) Billy Boy (Capstan Shanty) Hullabaloo belay (Harvards Shanty...
Worthy of special note is the bur lesque Third Cabin advertisement which is illustrated by a page of photographs of "life at sea". Much trouble was evidently taken and the photographs and their grouping are wholly in the bur lesque spirit from the shuffle board game with pie pans to the representation of Lady Montbatten ascending the grand stairway of the New Amsterdam third class port holes in the background...