Word: galley
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...trouble and solving problems without creating unnecessary ill feeling: One day a troublesome sailor, who hated the cook seemingly for no other reason than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain still sat around...
...with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...
...plan frustrated by the machinations of a lace-collared fifth columnist, Lord Wolfingham.* (Henry Daniell), Captain Thorpe is clapped into a Spanish galley. There he endures lashings so realistic that a lady tourist in the Warner studio who saw them being administered to Cinemactor Flynn fainted dead away. Just as the captain is about done in, he hears the greatest news in English history, is inspired to take over the ship, race to England, thrust and parry his way through the palace and Lord Wolfingham to warn his Queen in time that the Armada...
...from the consequences of victory with the same instinctive consternation that made Henry Adams recoil from U. S. Grant. Wrote Henry Adams, describing his and his father's return after a decade in England: "Had they been Tyrian traders of the year B.C. 1,000, landing from a galley fresh from Gibraltar, they could hardly have been stranger on the shore of a world so changed...
From the start, All This and Heaven Too had a better chance to make the movies than a producer's girl friend. Novelist Field's husband, Arthur Pedersen, is a Hollywood literary agent, and in the early summer of 1938 galley proofs of the novel were at all the big movie plants before the ink was dry. As it turned out, the script was the prima donna of the show from start to finish...