Word: chantey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a minimum of fanfare he ordered two heaving lines, attached to huge hawsers, to be dropped to a rowboat almost infinitesimal beside the liner. This craft ferried the lines of the pier, where they were hauled in by stevedores to the rhythm of a modern chantey that fitted in with the scene of a mechanical smoke and steel. Finally, after the snapping and curling of the forward hawser, three frantic excursions by the rowboat, and the working of winches and propellors, the ship was made sung. Rolling like the master of an old sailing ship, in which school...
...cowboys' and sailors' songs, have never been collected in print. In the May-June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments of safe flying, each verse pointing a moral. Excerpts...
...long poems Masefield tells of her first voyage and her last; in many shorter lyrics sings the praises of the Wanderer and her vanished kind. Always a competent narrative poet, the ageing Masefield embroiders fewer purple passages, forges no mighty lines. But he can still write a chantey which cries for music. The first verse...