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...raise a meek voice for my shipmates and myself, who, when eight bells go and our long watches are over have nothing but a monotonous view of sky and water to greet our eyes. Day after day and night after night we come below to our rooms or to fo'c'sles bare and uninviting. Were it not for the books and magazines placed aboard by the American Merchant Marine Library Association we would indeed...
...year-old Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew), too full of chocolate ice cream sodas, slips under the rail of a transatlantic liner's boat deck, bellywhops down into the icy waters of the Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member...
White folks eat de apple, Nigger wait fo' co' [core] In Sistren an' Brethren, the rebellious singer commands: Stop foolin' wid pray, When black face is lifted, Lord turnin...
Religion is somethin' fo' de soul But preacher's belly done...
...know what it is like fo be written about in TIME [Feb. 24]. It's bracing, despite the pain at the seat of the pants...