Word: dod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Race (TIME, Feb. 9, Sept. 14, 1931). In 1933 she financed a flight over Mt. Everest to prove to India that "not all Englishmen are degenerate." Lately, the sympathies of "Britain's Fairy Godmother" have been aroused by the sorry case of handsome Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne and his brother Jim. From Great Grimsby on the Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South...
...Girl Pat for $16,500, said she was going to present her to the Orsbornes. The philanthropic widow who so admires virility planked down $2,500 more to cover the cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler so that her owners could collect $15,000 insurance, which they...
Unconvinced, the Court found the broth ers guilty, sentenced Jim to a year, Dod to 18 months at hard labor...
...with you, Dod,' the men declared, 'even if you sail her into hell!' . . . If I live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark...
Last week, Britain's sensation-reading public had something else to ponder besides Skipper Orsborne's memories artfully ghost-written in third-rate Kiplingese. Up in Bow Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...