Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such stories as that of 1900 describing the attack of a maddened whale on a pilot boat in the harbor, modern readers recognized the Hearst touch for nature yarns. The coverage by the Examiner of San Francisco's earthquake & fire made good reading in 1906, good retelling in 1937. Cried City Editor Jack Barrett to staftmen as he scuttled from a saloon at 5:20 a. m. on the morning of the earthquake, "Boys, it looks like the end of the world!" Oldtime San Francisco Hearst-readers recalled this light-hearted spirit as typical of the early Examiner...
...giants do, planned cunningly to outwit the scientist. When he drank himself to death in London in 1783, aged 22, a London newspaper reported that "the whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house, just as harpooners would an enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body to the Irish Sea, to weight it and sink it in deep water. Hunter, a Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London...
Everything went off without a hitch, except for the fact that the Baby Whale, the official coaching boat for the day, balked in indignation at the new innovation. With Bolles safely installed aboard, attempts to start the outboard motor proved of no avail. A large crowd assembled on Larz Anderson Bridge to watch the struggle with great glee. Steady cranking accomplished nothing until the flash of distant oars was seen. Then the motor took heart and started, all too late, however, for the crews were just returning...
...back in top form now for his battle with the great Cramer. Last year it was this boxer of Lamer's who, when the Virginia meet was tied, gave Harvard the victory with a technical knockout. Like the Gluck-Schmidt clash, this should turn out to be a whale of a bout...
...writers for this year's production were Arnett McKennan '37, Gasper Hacon, Jr. '38, and Benjamin Welfes '38. The scenery and cusiumes are being designed by Alfonso Ossorio '38, designer for "Jonah and the Whale", and McKennan. Prominent in the cast will be John Graham '38, John Develin '38, Donald MacKeller '38, Lawrence Davis '38, and Bacon, McKennan; and Bacon, McKennan; and Welies...