Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped as a sailor. Six years of the sea and the army whipped him into a tough physical specimen...
...crew suffers from "quarantinable" diseases, that all cases of "contagious" diseases are isolated. Ships should now dock in New York Harbor at least one hour earlier. As 400,000 incoming voyagers each year have noticed, every ship entering New York dropped anchor at Quarantine off Rosebank, Staten Island. A sailor ran a yellow flag up the mast...
...will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected to take to yacht racing...
...hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very seriously. When Westbrook Pegler labeled Montague a combination of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Popeye the Sailor and Ivan Petrovsky Skovar, it gave the story more color than credibility...
...senior midshipman and a junior midshipman than there is between a large cowpat and a small cowpat." Occasionally the force of his anecdotes is somewhat weakened by the necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo into such terms as "simian-faced son of a spinster," or "blood-stained Bulgarians." Sailor Smith spent the War in "Trousers Pulling Down Contests" ("the officer whose brace buttons first touched the deck lost the contest") with his brother officers in the wardroom. Between times he commanded armed merchant cruisers, aircraft carriers. The War over, he hitched up his trousers and went ashore to preside over...