Word: blackbeard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blackbeard became upset, and was about to reach down into the water with his big, hairy hand when by accident he spilled the bottle of milk the boy was carrying. Since he was not really a mean man, but only hairy and unattractive to goldfish, he gave the boy two coins, one to pay for the milk, another to spend. The boy immediately put the extra coin on the right color and won the goldfish, which swam eagerly into the attendant...
...17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
...Touch of Blackbeard. Conspicuously present at Cowes last week was the renaissance's principal architect: salty, roistering Uffa Fox, 57, one of the world's top yacht designers, boom companion and helmsman to the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Prince Philip fared no better than second, successively sailing in Uffa's 20-ton sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn...
...Blackbeard, the Pirate (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio), an expensively Technicolored penny dreadful, casts Robert Newton as the infamous 18th century privateer Edward Teach, popularly known as Blackbeard. In this fanciful biography, Blackbeard is as blackhearted a buccaneer as ever sailed the Spanish Main. As one of his own crew puts it, he "would make the flesh crawl on a squid." His shaggy beard daintily decorated with red ribbons, Blackbeard goes about flogging, stabbing and stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards...
Robert Newton, chewing at all the scenery, seems to be having a wonderful time in the title role. Good decorative note: Linda Darnell as a fiery wench who flounces around Blackbeard's vessel in a series of stunning plunging necklines...