Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America, her ice-scarred bow and hull give ample evidence of the clutching, ripping fingers of the polar giants that tried to hold the ship back; but there is no visible proof today of the gales she outrode or the times she struggled under tons of sleet and frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that curled the sea away from their blunt bows...
...SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith- Harper ($2.50).- Sheila Kaye-Smith likes Sussex, continues to write about its broad, quiet fields, its broad, quiet people. If by some unlikely chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
...Susan Spray is one of the two September choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club. The other: S. S. San Pedro (TIME...
...plane slid along the surface of the Solent until it was going about 200 m.p.h. It cleared the water for a second and then dropped back to it. A tower of spray shot up. The S-6 bounced 40 feet in the air and then plunged down into the Solent, nose first. When Lieut. Brinton's fellow officers reached the ship in a speedboat, it had risen again, upside down, with wings and tail torn off. The wreckage was towed ashore and the dead body of Lieut. Brinton removed from the tail of the fuselage, where the 'shock...
...Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so successfully that she becomes famed...