Word: coasted
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...decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...Colonel Schwarzoppen by some French officer who had turned traitor. Captain Dreyfus was a Jew and as such was held in suspicion by the higher French military authorities. He was accused of treason, convicted by a military court and sent to He du Diable, convict-establishment off the coast of French Guiana...
...Ernest Torrence. In Europe they smuggle firearms and diamonds. In the U. S. they are liquor barons. Being rivals in business, in facial attraction, in drinking capacity, they love to cause each other physical and financial embarrassment. The final episode finds Mr. Gilbert piloting his rumrunner off the coast of Long Island, with a charming society girl (Joan Crawford) on board against her will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture Mr. Gilbert & crew. There is a grand and gory fight just before the U. S. Coast Guard ship arrives. The rivals...
...life force to reunite with the cosmic force of the impersonal universe, in "the hollow darkness outside the stars and the dark hollow in the atom." The nerves of his writing are taut under elemental strains?the strain of the Pacific against its granite boundaries, of a mountainous coast verging on earthquake, of oil tanks about to explode and consume themselves, of brains splitting with a dasmon. His greatest word...
...coast hills, thinking the thing...