Word: shipper
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...English," the master shipper of Liverpool, has grown old and his power is slipping from him. He is, as a rival so aptly says, with "one foot in bankruptcy, the other in the grave." Yet he struggles to dominate his opponents, to maintain his independence, and to provide for the heirs who are the remnant of an ill-spent youth. It is this struggle that the actor portrays with his usual appreciation and subtlety. "Old English" dies in the end, the victim of his own will, and it is here that the movie falters dangerously. An obsequy held over...
...martial spirit, year in and year out, in peace time as well as war time). Treating food as a contraband makes for war also among nations likely to be in the business of supplying food; the challenging and invading of what we deemed our rights as a neutral shipper caused President Wilson in 1916 to make a plea for "incomparably the greatest navy in the world." Had ships carrying food then enjoyed the same immunity as hospital ships, it is possible that the area of the Great War might have been more circumscribed. Every nation whose economic status includes...