Word: sailoring
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...organization for national defense. "But," says the Navy, paraphrasing Karl von Clausewitz† "the best defense is a strong offense." The farther from U. S. shores an enemy could be met, the prouder and happier the Navy would be. The Navy does not boast that one U. S. sailor is a match for any two foreigners but it firmly believes that if the U. S. sailor is armed as well as any foreigner, no one will ever come to war with...
...acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating a faint touch of tuberculosis, that he stopped to think...
...given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl to visit Manhattan, where she is last seen, in the midst of her loose and double jointed motions. She has already performed matrimony on the sailor...
MANY tales have been written from the first wanderings of Aeneas to the romantic adventures of the Sea Devil of the World War, but few have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole...
Grayson is a sailor at all I'll eat my shirt and his chevrons. You know how he got his fancy rank, don't you? By being picked up by President Wilson, who rode roughshod over the entire Naval Board and jammed his favorite through Congress. About 200* other Navy doctors were ahead of him, in sheer ranking merit, for what was handed to Grayson on a silver platter. At that the great Wilson's puppet was almost set down hard where he belonged by the Senate...