Word: ensigns
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...towel after shaving. There was no towel. On board a British destroyer in the North Sea, his face and fingers dripping, he fumbled about in a linen closet in the captain's cabin and dried his face with the first available cloth. It turned out to be a British ensign, and is now hanging in C-33, Kirkland House, in the room of David E. Mann...
Presented anonymously to Harvard's Naval Training School, a three-foot statue of Massasoit has been set up in the Union. In ceremonies of Indian fashion, at which Commander Macgowan officiated, the statue was received by Lieutenant E. O. Elmer, Jr. and Ensign Richard M. Carrigan in behalf of the student body...
...ensign, a regimental standard, and six company guidons comprised the set, which was received by Officer-in-Charge Commander Macgowan in behalf of the entire regiment. The colors were purchased with money raised by this and the previous class of the Harvard NTS, and the needlework on the guidons was done by the Navy Wives of Cambridge...
...Ensign U.S.N.R. (formerly attached to Royal Naval Barracks...
...Ensign Borker is correct. Admiral James at three (in 1885) was a winning curlyhead whose passion was soap bubbles. His grandfather, the great Pre-Raphaelite Painter John Everett Millais, one day bribed little Willie to pose for him in exchange for hearing a fairy tale. An excellent likeness, the painting was finished in several weeks -minus soap bubbles. Those were painted from less evanescent crystal spheres...