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...couples wedded by sea captains to the march of chill spume were displeased last week. An opinion handed down by Judge Chauncey G. Parker (Shipping Board General Counsel) stated simply and effectively that no Federal statute empowers captains to conduct marriage ceremonies. Captains were then ordered to quit marrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sea-Weds | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...limpid water of the trough of the sea, and the transparent surface of the large wave at the left is finely relieved by a touch of opaque white light supplied by a sea gull flying close to the green water, the limpidity of which is further accentuated by the spume-fringed eddies on the surface of the trough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASTERPIECE BY TURNER ON EXHIBITION AT FOGG | 2/29/1916 | See Source »

Where there are rocks and spume and bitter weeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. D. 1875. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

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