Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Variety, The Billboard, The Clipper, Zit's Weekly-the average citizen not in " the profession" who stumbles upon one or more of these stumbles at once into a new and diverting world. A world where the verb " to wow" means unqualified success, where " sisters " are seldom if ever related, where a " tab " is not what old Mr. Webster said it was, but a tabloid musical show...
...anxious to know " The Inside Stuff on Legit? " Variety will tell you. Do you happen to want an ant-eater for a pet or to know just exactly what the home folks in Terre Haute are seeing in the way of vaudeville? The Clipper can quote you a price on one and the entire bill of the other...
Time was when the lure of travel and of the sea furnished an irresistible call to the young New Englander. The great development of industry has changed all this, and with the passing of the old clipper ship has gone a large part of the romantic atmosphere that attached itself to the professional sailor.--in this country at least. The Briton however, must perforce be a mariner. The nation lives by commerce, and hence the sea is a popular calling. It has been left to an Englishman to show that in steam ships there is a fascination that equals that...
...been sailors. It was a Cape Cod captain who brought into Boston the tea that provided for that city's famous party, and our navies in 1775 and 1812 were largely officered and manned by men from the Cape. But the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, the days of the clipper ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once...
...American seamanship. For that same schooner, an American vessel with an American crew, is to race the challenger from Canada for the supremacy of North Atlantic waters. No butterfly drifting contest, this, but a real battle, regardless of weather conditions, and fought out by men of the old clipper-ship stock--men who are best able to uphold our fame and reputation...