Word: fern
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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They had met another sea-struck couple, Chester and Fern Thompson of San Pedro. Thompson had done some deep-sea diving. Why didn't they all sail to the Marquesas Islands, 3,000 miles southwest in the Pacific, and dive for pearls? The Conlys were enthusiastic...
...dead were Eve and Delton Conly. The still-living woman was Fern Thompson. The Wing On's fragmentary log told the rest. After noting that the yacht had run into a "cyclone," the entry dated Nov. 7 read: "Discovered Chet had died. What next? Help us, oh God!" On Nov. 8: "Buried Chester Thompson, 21, at 8:10 a.m.; died starvation ... he was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had." The last entry, on Nov. 12, was merely: "D. A. Conly, master, yacht Wing...
...Fiji officials, had apparently died soon after he had scrawled his signature. Eve had died just a day or two before the sea washed the Wing On up on Vanua Levu. The rest of the story of the 100-day adventure was locked behind the swollen lips of Fern Thompson, who, in critical condition, was carried delirious to an island hospital...
...pseudonymous Author Blake), the Caprichos of Goya, the dream pictures of 15th-Century Artist Hieronymus Bosch. The Smith works were as full of symbolism as the Freudian moon is of green cheese. Of Elements Which Cause Prostitution Mr.Smith explained: "The land is cushioned -the bowl has the sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken-the wine is spilled-both eagles fly to the rescue. Shamefully she stands knee deep in classic water-her body eaten and pitted with holes. The preventative balloon trails sandbags. The body stands...