Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives with his son and daughter-in-law in an old, nondescript red brick house in Washington. There the Admiral has a bare combination bedroom and office. His old painted iron bed, which his daughter-in-law considers a monstrosity, is as chipped as a battleship's anchor. On the walls are a few Navy cutlasses. In a locker ("closet" to landlubbers) is a supply of brandy. The Admiral, who smokes furiously, drinks little, but relishes a nip of brandy in the evening...
...other talent, with a band of pots & pans, an accordion and a cornet, put on a pathetic and courageous show-"The Franklin Frolics." For four days they rested in Pearl Harbor, then sailed on for Panama. On April 26-after 38 days and 13,400 miles-they dropped anchor at last in New York's Gravesend...
Secret of Contentment. In a prosperous riverside pub, The Anchor, Texan Dobie spent many hours "when darkness came early," swapping countryside legend and philosophy. There he would find at a corner table cronies like Horner, who ran away to sea at the age of 13, inveighing bitterly against politicians, against women "because they spend their lives making men think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over...
...Anchor's proprietors] operated such an establishment in America," Dobie speculates, "they'd take in a barrel of money. They'd enlarge it to take care of more & more customers and keep on enlarging it until it grew as big as Madison Square Garden. . . ." That the English proprietors are content to make only a simple living from the Anchor is, he thinks, the secret of England's proud contentment...
...works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour, a tangle of plausible roses, lilies, pansies, baby's breath and almost edible cupids. Another notable prizewinner: Grappling the Lost Anchor, by famed Illustrator Harrison ("Peter Rabbit") Cady. Net impression on most visitors: more of the same...