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Against these all the great storm broke. A wave slapped the tall ship's side, burst in a thick glass port, flooded a cabin and swept a man reclining in security out of his berth, wrenching his shoulder out of place. The gale increased. At times it blew 100 miles an hour. More ports were driven in? eleven ports in all. On three successive days, green water rolled over the boat deck, 90 ft. above the keel. Two stewards were thrown down a companionway and broke their arms. The expansive panes of the windows protecting the promenades and staterooms were...
What is the chance of such a sinking? Is it impossible? The grizzled mariner would shake his head. Nothing is impossible. In two ways may a ship be sunk?by being crushed, by being capsized. Naval architects are not hired to design ships that a storm could crush. Such a feat would yield neither profit nor honor. But capsize ? Everything that floats, or nearly everything, can be capsized. A ship that rolls easily is best, for she knows how to right herself. Of course, she is less comfortable for passengers than one who keeps an even keel in ordinary weathers...
Upon the good ship Paris arrived in Manhattan Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, cousin of King George of Britain, younger sister of Queen Marie of Rumania, wife of Cyrille Vladimiro- vitch, self-ordained Tsar of all the Russias (TIME...
...Florence that George Eliot found in Italy and fashioned for her novel Romola has been recaptured by the camera. Amazingly beautiful photography of the strange old sleepy city on the Arno is, next to Miss Gish's playing, the feature of the narrative. Opening with a galley-slave ship scene, the escape of the villain, his marriage with the blind Bardi's daughter, his betrayal of her, his denial of his aged father, his death, follow the outline of the story...
...became dictator. In 1908, having long suffered from a serious illness, he left the country to undergo an operation in Germany. While on board ship off shore, Juan Vicente Gomez, acting head of the Government who has ever since been President, sent him a message telling him not to return? which injunction he always obeyed...