Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That all U. S. sea trade, plus 25 billions of U. S. foreign investments (not counting Government loans to the Allies), gives a grand total close to 45 billions...
...Bureaucrats" though they are called, shore admirals have been sea admirals. "Jingoes" though they are called, sea admirals do not want war. They, better than most people, know what it is like. They, sooner than others, must fight it. Blunt professionals, they demand serviceable instruments with which to do their duty when it becomes necessary. Permanent public servants, their philosophy is at bottom the working philosophy of the U. S. Navy, no matter how Congresses and Administrations help or hinder its expression...
Philip L. Kale's Aphrodite of the Sea Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...
...South Sea Love. Thus the plot begins: a young girl, ambitious for a career, says good-by to her best beloved. He will go to the South Seas, find some pearls, sell them and use the money to launch her as an actress. Soon after the departure of her inamorata, the lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas...
...forgive its major improbabilities of plot, there is much sound cinematic realism in South Sea Love. Doubtless men do not go to the South Seas to find pearls with which to buy musical comedy careers for lovely actresses; but if they did, they might well behave as herein suggested...