Word: spuming
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...above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service. A rifle squad fired three volleys, and the Mendota steamed away through the spume leaving a lone wreath bobbing on the waves...
...some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing and conducts his employer's magazines on a cliff's edge at West Falmouth, Mass. In stormy weather, the spume of Buzzards Bay flies almost to the wide windows...
...small cottage at Bethany Beach. Del., one tumultuous night last week, General Hugh S. Johnson sat down at his telephone by candlelight. Outside the wind screamed and howled in the flying spume as the tail of a West Indian hurricane lashed the little house, creaked its beams, I rattled its windows...
...earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...
Amid pounding, wind-lashed combers two miles off the coast of Nova Scotia one day last week, the crew of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police cruiser Scatarie peered into the offing with amazement at what they saw-a big bull moose swimming out to sea. Spume drenched his antlers, waves submerged his muzzle as he swam, obviously in distress, into the wind...