Word: shipping
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...only setting used in the production is a sketchy ship, the prow, stern and mast of which are quite naively carried on by the phantom sailors and slipped into place on the stage. Despite this transparency of presentation, a weirdly moving effect is achieved, even when a dead sailor puts his hand up to rock the mast in a storm...
...crew illustrate the Mariner's recital by grouping themselves on the ship in grotesquely contorted poses, looking uncannily like corpses stagnant in seaweed. Their edifyingly horrific effect is heightened by masks made by James Light in Benda's most blood-curdling manner. The masks, creepily memorable, have a greenish tinge, with dank hair plastered over them...
Three quarters of a century ago, when Boston was one of the leading seaports of the United States, scarcely a day passed that did not see at least one clipper ship beating into the harbor with cargoes out of India and the far east. Spices and silks came from China, minerals and cocoanuts from South America...
...will make their sixth annual trip this summer, visiting France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and England. Sailing from New York on the "Zeeland" of the Red Star Line on June 28, the group will travel through these countries until August 22 when they return on the "Caronia", a Cunard Line ship...
...respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made a pirate on the very evening of the day he is made a small partner with his old employer. The kidnaper claims to be his father, very certainly is a villain--but he knows how to appreciate a "tall ship," as does the author whose passion for the sea runs through her former book