Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acting, a most vital factor in the success of a performance depending so little on its setting and embellishments, is thoroughly competent and convincing. Claude Allister in particular gives a marvelously deft rendering of the English nobleman who lost his senses through shell shock during the war. Charles McNaughton, as the supposedly dead Tommy, also does a very capable piece of work...
...motorship Shawnee, bound from Bermuda to Halifax in ballast, plowed through the seas. The Canadian ensign flew at her masthead; all lights were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been hit the ship would have gone up in flames. Another shot struck...
...Well, you should know," answered the skipper of the Shawnee. The boat turned on her searchlight and signalled the Coast Guard cutter Gresham to approach. The Shawnee plowed on, pumping out the water that the waves poured in through the shell holes. For a whole day Coast Guard vessels dogged her course...
...thrill-seekers as a barbarous relic of the old Spanish regime. Then in 1925 it was restored to use by the suave but ruthlessly dictating Cuban who is still President, His Excellency General Gerardo Machadoy Morales. Though of mild appearance and a wearer of business-like tortoise-shell spectacles General Machadoy has been accused of having political enemies thrown to sharks (TIME, March n). His revival of garroting was significant...
...surprising that the oyster's prodigal fertility has generated a vigorous industry. No other fishery product is as valuable. Of pure water, minus shell and waste matter, 73,000 tons, worth $14,000,000, are marketed annually. Their food equivalent is the meat of 250,000 steers. A million acres of oyster land are under cultivation; at least another million are natural oyster farms...