Word: typhoonous
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Questioned concerning the film in which she stars with Jack Holt, the stately beauty merely smiled. "The storm is rather nauseating, especially the third time. Though it is not a real typhoon. And Jack is such a dear. He has dignity, real dignity. But for verve, spirit, give me Adolph any time. Wasn't he just wonderful? No. I didn't really ever get into the bath. Yes it was furnished by the Crane company--and Adolph says such funny things--"But I have never had the role I want...
...Horses. Jack Holt and Florence Vidor are fairly entertainingly occupied in a marine adventure in which a typhoon is prominently concerned. He is a sea captain and she the wife of an Englishman who once might have been described...
...typhoon brought a cloudburst into the thickly populated district around Tokyo with the following results: Twelve lives lost, 20,000 houses flooded (including 1,000 completely submerged), bridges swept away, telegraph wires broken between Tokyo and Osaka, 1,000 acres of rice fields inundated. Damage was estimated...
...with piercing cries of joy. Savaron, cursing brilliantly, burrowed down through the loams of illusion to the last dark rootlet of which words can tell. Psychologically, the book is a faultless exposition of the destructive approach to super-manhood. It would be restless reading for maiden aunts, a dangerous typhoon for souls without some windward anchor of faith or stupidity...
...conquering by air for the first time in history of the hitherto uncharted air route over the Pacific Ocean by the perilous traversing of typhoon-swept areas of Japan and China; the pushing on through days of sweltering heat and tropical rains of Indo-China, Burma and India; and, after the comparative safety of Europe, the unflinching answering of the formidable challenge of the fog-encompassed and ice-locked stretches of the North Atlantic-these are facts that are dipped in an indelible dye, the nucleus of a story that will fire the imagination of old and young alike...