Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of July 2 on p. 25, you have unintentionally confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should...
Norway has lost her greatest citizen, the discoverer of the South Pole. Italy has got back a "hero" who became such when he, Nobile, was employed by an American financier to act, under the guidance of Amundsen, as captain of the Norge. [(TIME...
...Leviathan steamed into New York harbor, last week, her skipper, Captain Harold Cunningham, pounded a table to the delight of ship news reporters and roared: "The theft did not happen aboard my ship. It's all a lot of damned British propaganda...
Vexed, the Captain rapped, "You may make it doubly strong! . . . One Scotland Yard detective, after inspecting the mail compartment and the method of protecting the mail on the Leviathan, assured me that he did not see how the robbery could have been committed aboard ship...
Sued for Divorce. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime all-American footballer (Yale 1909 captain); by Jeanne Eagels, famed actress (Rain); in Chicago. She charged cruelty, football tactics...