Word: sunkenness
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...times past the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Moors and Spaniards have overrun the Island of Mallorca, "Pearl of the Mediterranean" off the coast of Spain. Their admixed descendants, the Mallorcans, have very black, sunken eyes, a strangely dissipated look. They lazily raise silk worms, goats, oranges, olives, almonds...
...German submarine laden with $3,000,000 in gold in the South Seas during the War. Captain Schlemmer (Fredrik Vogeding) escapes with one shipmate, kills him on a desert island. Years later he ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows his stripe by trying to get all the gold for himself. He is dragged beneath the waves...
...high price of gold and the march of science have combined to make treasure hunting a practical as well as a romantic pursuit. Last week famed Master Locksmith Charles Courtney, who rifled the safes of the sunken Egypt 400 ft. undersea (TIME, June 2, July 18), was back in Man- hattan with a sensational version of the salvaging of H. M. S. Hampshire in the North Sea. The Hampshire, victim of a German mine, went down with Earl Kitchener and some $10,000,000 in gold aboard...
...Duxbury, where his family went in the summer, with his flirtatious mother and two uncles, his father and some sinister secret usually out of sight in the background. The secret comes nearly out when his mother and his Uncle David are drowned in a storm and he finds the sunken boat with their trapped bodies.) Next few days Gather spends in trying to keep drunk; he ends up in the room of a friend who is an amateur psychoanalyst, keeps him up all night by his brilliantly unhappy monolog. When he comes to, next evening, Gather feels better about things...
...served in the Union Army, married Lily, the daughter of Eberhard Anheuser who had a brewery in St. Louis, went into partnership with his father-in-law and built up the greatest beer business in the U. S. In March 1911, he celebrated his golden wedding in his sunken gardens in Pasadena. (He had other estates near St. Louis, near New York, in Germany.) To his wife, Lily, who had given him seven children (two sons, five daughters) he gave a gold crown set with diamonds & pearls, worth $200,000. Two years later on one of his frequent visits...