Word: crews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other physical and financial embarrassment. The final episode finds Mr. Gilbert piloting his rumrunner off the coast of Long Island, with a charming society girl (Joan Crawford) on board against her will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture Mr. Gilbert & crew. There is a grand and gory fight just before the U. S. Coast Guard ship arrives. The rivals die in each other's arms, agreeing that each is "a damn good guy." Miss Crawford's kiss is on Mr. Gilbert's lips. It is a good picture...
...With the crew of the Kingsway, however, Mrs. Battice was not so unpopular. Bough, tough, deep-water tars though they were, they had to admit that her feminine touch made the ship more homelike. Waldemar Karl Badke, towheaded German, "donkeyman,"* got on especially well with her. Every one aboard, including Mr. Battice, knew that they were great friends. Mrs. Battice even drew the fact to her husband's attention, one day when Africa was still many dawns beyond the hot horizon. Mr. Battice strolled on deck to ask a shipmate for the loan of a razor...
...took Mrs. Battice six days to die. Mr. Battice also groaned constantly, in rusty irons. The crew grew restive. Captain Lawry would command one thing, Mate Mortimer another. More often than not they obeyed Mate Mortimer. On two days they refused all work...
...Blood Ship. The captain is a ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...
...Byrd crew supplied Parisians with types for all tastes. Some chose sleek, swart Bert Acosta who had piloted the big ship to the French coast and then collapsed with exhaustion. While Commander Byrd slept on the first night in Paris, Pilot Acosta, despite a broken collar bone, continued to pilot his comrades through an informal demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening...