Word: shipwreckers
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...story of an American escapist, Thunder Rock takes place in a lighthouse on an island in Lake Michigan, includes in its cast the ghosts of a handful of immigrants drowned in a shipwreck in 1849. Talking things over with his spooky companions, the hero of Thunder Rock discovers that the pessimism of 1849 was just as profound as that of 1939, resolves with no great originality to abandon his lighthouse and come to grips with life...
...Narciso's business to report to his King that "the Admiral was not fit to govern a farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails, a more distinguished passenger is Columbus, in chains, with a ham actor's pride in his martyrdom; still hopeful, hot-eyed, still straining after the Golden City of Cambaluc...
...sounds and signs of fighting in the Artois trap died, observers knew that it was not because all the Allies had left with the last boats. Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds. Smothered under the converging German flood were the last brave thousands who died or were taken prisoner, and mountains of precious materiel. This week War Secretary Anthony Eden, speaking for the British alone, said that 80% were saved of the original B. E. F., which is now put at a low total...
...Professor Brewer's contention that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly to handicraft and dentistry as something that the boys can put their fingers on. If Harvard fears that, as a liberal arts college, it has suffered shipwreck, it can still scan the horizon for a savior before dropping to the bottom...
...band used by ships at sea came a frantic story of explosion, fire, death on the Elder Dempster (British) tanker Dunkwa, 90 miles southwest of Miami. Nobody waited to ask questions. Coast Guard cutters sped to sea, searched the calm Atlantic for miles around the given position. But no shipwreck could be found. Meantime, shipping experts ashore who knew the Dunkwa's, regular run, from Europe to West Africa, began to wonder how she came so tar off her course. Then, while the S O S's continued to crackle in, Lloyd's reported the Dunkwa safe...