Word: shipwreck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...
Last week, 124 of the 231 went back, cooing with pleasure, to these same public rooms for a reunion unique in shipwreck history. Pulled off the reef, the Dixie. had been completely repaired in jig-time at a cost of $468,000. Ready to return to her regular run between New York and New Orleans, she was docked in Manhattan while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered...
...only human importantly concerned in the picture is a 14-year-old boy (V. Konstantinov) who falls asleep at a picnic where a companion has been reading aloud from Gulliver's Travels. Dreaming, he thinks he is Dr. Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital...
Because it was not merely a shipwreck but the culmination of a series of disasters to Ward Line ships, the sinking of the Mohawk last week left the country aghast. Only five months ago the Morro Castle, her captain mysteriously dead, caught fire and burned with a loss of 124 lives (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week she was still beached off Asbury Park. N. J. Last month off Florida the Havana for no good reason went aground 20 miles off her course (TIME, Jan. 14). That a third major disaster should befall the Ward Line last week was regarded...
...Island, the Bounty's last port of call. But when chance offered, something always turned up to prevent their going. Last summer, when he heard of a schooner which was to touch there, Hall decided to go even though Nordhoff could not accompany him. The Tale of a Shipwreck, a quiet, rambling narrative that tells not only of his voyage and shipwreck but of how and why he came to go to the South Seas in the first place, is a book that will be wanted by all amateurs of the sea and sea-narratives...