Word: shipwrecks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presumably the butler's name is not that of the Admirable Crichton, discreet, able butler who (in Sir James's socialistic play of that title) takes command of an aristocratic family on a deserted island, after shipwreck. The play was first produced in 1903, and cinematographed in 1919 under the title of Male and Female...
...shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from Ward's head, chest, stomach, legs. Ward was rushed to a shore hospital "seriously injured...
...Play in Three Acts?James Elroy Flecker?Knopf ($2). This bit will be of interest to those who esteem Flecker's genius of the first order, and to whom even an incomplete sketch from his pen is of value. In the first scene of the play there is a shipwreck. The stage in complete darkness, a shrieking wind carries terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face...
...storm comes up on the return voyage. "Ivan the Terrible begins to spin like a top. "Peter is desperate. "He falls on his knees. "He weeps. "He beats the sailors. "He kisses them. "He prays. "He promises the Lord Jesus Christ a cross if he will save him from shipwreck. He promises to appoint Him a Russian Rear-Admiral. "Ivan the Terrible is hurled upon the coast and shattered to pieces. "Peter and the sailors are washed upon the shore like dead fish...
...same thing as when one has been through some frightful anxious adventure, like a shipwreck at sea, or a lucky escape from the charge of a lion while game hunting; the original experience was far from enjoyable, but when looking back in retrospect one enjoys, has even a thrill, in recalling the adventure, although at the time one may have been almost frantic with anxiety or fear. We are in love with our memories though the original experiences were far from lovable. The same principle applies to pleasurable football memories...