Word: ensigns
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...Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...
...Bacon, who also served at Harvard and Radcliffe as an assistant in English, was graduated from Lafayette College in 1917 and in the following year took the degree of master of arts at the University. During the war he held the rank of ensign in the United Stated Navy...
...Castle Island, Panama, Lighthouse-keeper Hanna navigated a small boat flying the British ensign upside-down (sign of distress). Attacked by tooth and stomach aches, he had deserted his beacon, after swallowing all the medicine therein. The steamer Lilian Luckenbach sighted him, gave him ten pounds of assorted drugs. Thus medicated, Hanna resumed his post...
...preface regrets the noise and bustle that have superseded simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman's plantation, only to lose it through the backbiting of a jealous mulatto woman...
...Cheerfully greasy he dismembered it and screwed it together again. Of late years aviation caught his mechanical mind's eye and he learned flying, planning to commute by air between Newport and Manhattan. The war machinery of ships engrossed him in 1917-18 when he progressed from U. S. ensign to lieutenant and served actively in foreign waters. He loaned to the government for the war his Winchester, fastest large yacht (about 35 miles per hour) yet designed to carry man seaward from the noise of cities...