Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poem into which he poured a lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust.* The Emperor Napoleon, to whom Genius Goethe was presented at the zeniths of their careers, engaged him in profound conversation for some time, then implanted the seal of French approval by exclaiming, "Voila un homme?There...
...late autumn when North Atlantic seals seek warmer waters, a few usually find their way into Long Island Sound and bask there until spring comes. Some even frequent New York Harbor, dodging ferryboats and lying at the edge of Bedloe's Island, barking mischievously at the Statue of Liberty. Few residents of Long Island and Connecticut have ever seen a wild seal, but there are men who welcome a mild winter as an opportunity for the joyous, carefree sport of Sound sealing...
...from Manhasset, L. I. one dark evening last fortnight put a small, dark craft called Tar Baby. Aboard were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their...
...moonshine in the veiling mists. With barnacle-like fervor they cling to the briny customs of their fathers. Silent (when sober) almost as clams, they are also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous old seadog who settles nearby. When Patriarch Hector Macrae dies soon after a terrible "rowing" to settle a family feud, Peter becomes patriarch in his stead, besets...
...fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable. In one or another...