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...equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior mid- shipmen. Said Chawbags: "I can never see that there is any more difference between a senior midshipman and a junior midshipman than there is between a large cowpat and a small cowpat." Occasionally the force of his anecdotes is somewhat weakened by the necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo into such terms as "simian-faced son of a spinster," or "blood-stained Bulgarians." Sailor Smith spent the War in "Trousers Pulling Down Contests" ("the officer whose brace buttons first touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bulldog Sea Dog | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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