Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion he excited the sympathy of a group of people who saw him walking along the shore overlooking to bay. He was coat-less as usual; the thermometer read ten below. Mrs. Pound, who tells the story, was embarrassed to confess to the commiserators that the "poor man" was her husband, as she was swathed warmly in mink...
...York, a clam digger named Cornelius J. Broere conceived a novel legal theory: that towing a floating corpse to shore is as much a salvage operation as towing an abandoned ship to safety. He filed a libel action under the provisions of Admiralty Law for $2,133 discovered in the pockets of a dead man he fished out of Great South...
...Roger B. Merriman, widow of Eliot's former House Master, witnessed the Elephant triumph from the Cambridge shore...
...quickly applied the full power of his 205 pounds and propelled his sinking craft toward the Weld Boat House. When he had arrived at a point six lengths and a summons from the dock, the undergraduate saw the wherry settle completely. Undismayed, he towed it to the opposite shore...
Corpses & Clippings. The wave of dis illusioned Americans broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent. In 1924, at the death of France's premier novelist, Anatole France, members of the new Surrealist movement had shown their antipathy to the old literary regime by issuing a raucous manifesto entitled Did You Ever Slap A Corpse? At the same time, followers of the deliberately infantile Dada movement were exhibiting "paintings" that showed a decisive break with the old tradition-being composed chiefly of newspaper clippings and shoelaces...