Word: typhooned
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...last year's title play, when Edith battled her from dormie two to a win at the 20th. There are Mrs. Hurd and Mrs. Barlow of Philadelphia, Louise Fordyce of Ohio, and Miriam Burns of Kansas, but none of these looms really large. Barring a vagrant, unpredictable typhoon, the only disturbance charted is the dark little terror whose native haunt is Providence-Glenna. She is indeed a thundercloud, always has been, particularly for Edith. The two have met once this year - in the finals of the Buffalo invitation matches. Glenna...
Almayer's Folly, 1895; An Outcast of the Islands, 1896; The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897; Tales of Unrest, 1898; Lord Jim, 1900; Youth and Other Tales, 1902; Typhoon, 1903; Nostromo, 1904; The Mirror of the Sea, 1906; A Set of Six, 1908; Under Western Eyes, 1911; Chance, 1914; Victory, 1915; Within the Tides, 1915; The Arrow of Gold, 1919; The Rescue, 1920; Notes on Life and Letters, 1921; The Rover...
...worst typhoon since 1906 struck the British Crown Colony of Hongkong. The wind blew at 130 m.p.h. uprooting huge trees and hurling them like matches hundreds of yards away. Telephone cables were laid low, most of the business signboards were smashed to splinters or blown away, many houses were unroofed. In the harbor the typhoon lashed the waters into a white fury. Many ships, including a British submarine, were sunk and many more driven ashore more or less damaged...
...against roughness. He pounded Downey into a state of collapse, and. vowing legal vengeance upon false Jack Druley, left for his Atlantic City camp to begin active training for" his fight with Dempsey. In Buenos Aires, Felix Bunge, Firpo patron, sheltered his protege's boxing science against the typhoon of criticism that has swept down upon it from the north. Senor Bunge exhibited to newspaper men cinemato-graphic analyses of Dempsey's style, in opposition to which, he stated, Firpo's technique had been specially evolved. Boasted Bunge: " We know Dempsey, while Dempsey does not know...
...report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines: "The present typhoon season is the worst in years! "My yacht, me aboard, was caught in Manila Harbor by a storm and thrown high on a submerged breakwater. No damage was done and no one was injured. Tugs pulled the craft into deep water." William J. Bryan: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, said...