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...spring night in 1878, the Captain of the "Pinafore" trod his first deck, and the eternal Victorian verities of "yea" and "nay" crumbled at the Captain's "Well, hardly ever." In a year's time, more than a hundred Captain Corcorans were cavorting nightly on as many stages in America alone, and "that infernal nonsense Pinafore" was running in everyone's head. No clergymen dared say "never" of a Sunday morning, for fear of a snicker from the pews; and when a minister intoned "For He Himself hath said it," some rogue would be sure to whisper...
First comes a shot of Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal...
...inspected the U. S. S. Constitution when that famed old frigate tied up at Washington Navy Yard. He went poking down into her bilge where officers had to use flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
...Penrose's more respectable pastimes was giving houseparties on his yacht to fellow-legislators and lady friends. On one occasion Penrose emerged on deck completely ready for a swim. A lady screamed at the sight. "Madame," said Senator Penrose, "I grant that mine is not the form of Apollo, but it is too late for either of us to do anything about that. But if I present what to you are strange or unfamiliar phenomena, it is you who should be ashamed, not I." The rise of Philadelphia's Vare brothers worried Penrose's declining years; more...
Jubilant at this unexpected, glorious news, the party workers rushed to tell Uncle Arthur who sat up in bed, had his back gently slapped, his big paw shaken. Actually the sick leader had been defeated. His hard-swearing, quarter-deck-pacing opponent, Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V. C. retired, Conservative, who commanded British "Mystery Q Ships" during the War, had won Burnley by 8,209 votes. At "The Old Bull," when this terrible truth was known, party workers could not bring themselves to face the Chief...