Word: farragut
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...feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...
...Admiral Farragut said "Damn the Torpedoes--full speed ahead," but it didn't do Freshman Albert "Three Wheeling" Hamilton any good though. He couldn't go full speed ahead 'cause the signs in the Yard said "No Bicycling" and Yard Cops were around to make it hurt...
Julius Caesar was 54 at the Battle of Pharsalus. Farragut was over 62 at New Orleans and Mobile...
...ruler will have a 165-year-old tradition to look back on. That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol, of spectacled, bluff Admiral James Otto Richardson...
...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...