Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Sea Witch was launched in 1846, she was the last word in sharp-bowed clipper design; wiseacres shook their heads, prophesied that any such ship would drive herself under in the first real blow. But old Tea Tycoon Prescott believed in her. He gave her to his crack master, Roger Murray, hoping for many a broken record. On shore a cold dandy, on his quarterdeck Roger was a genius. Though he took chances against all the rules, he had never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied...
...three brothers only Hugh stayed with the Sea Witch till the end. Will was lost in a storm off the Horn; Roger, after as many farewell performances as an opera star or matador, was finally forced into retirement when a California mob tried to burn him at the stake, crippled him for life. Hugh, once in love with Mary, then with his figurehead, finally with the ship herself, stuck by her even after she was sold into the guano trade, saw the last of her as she sank, burning, into the Pacific. In ten crowded years she had outlived...
...foreword which comes last, Author Laing tells how near he has kept to the facts he dug out of almost a thousand books; tells readers where they may see a scale model of the Sea Witch (at the Museum of the City of New York), warns them they will find her figurehead no likeness of beautiful Mary Murray, but a gilded dragon...
Near Walla Walla, Wash., one A. Snyder, Northern Pacific Railway Co. engineer, last fortnight saw a mule dead ahead between the tracks, ears laid back, eyes wide, legs braced. The brakes squealed, the mule stiffened, was catapulted off the track against a switch. The witch broke, the train ran off the rails, wrecking two cars. The mule trotted off ate grass...
ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN?Anthony Abbott?Covici, Friede ($2). Though Thatcher Colt alone smells murder on the flying rings under Madison Square's big top, the D. A. makes no protest, even when a pact is made with the old Ubangi witch doctor. Dark basement scenes?throat slitting?and a few nice weapons for the crime museum...