Word: figurehead
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...never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied by mistake. Roger and Hugh were both in love with Mary de Peyster, but bashful Hugh had done nothing about it beyond carving the Sea Witch's figurehead into a portrait of her. Roger had popped the question, got the answer. Hugh's brothers saved his life on the outward voyage but were not able to help him otherwise; somehow he survived, became a good ship's carpenter...
...lost in a storm off the Horn; Roger, after as many farewell performances as an opera star or matador, was finally forced into retirement when a California mob tried to burn him at the stake, crippled him for life. Hugh, once in love with Mary, then with his figurehead, finally with the ship herself, stuck by her even after she was sold into the guano trade, saw the last of her as she sank, burning, into the Pacific. In ten crowded years she had outlived her glory...
...comes last, Author Laing tells how near he has kept to the facts he dug out of almost a thousand books; tells readers where they may see a scale model of the Sea Witch (at the Museum of the City of New York), warns them they will find her figurehead no likeness of beautiful Mary Murray, but a gilded dragon...
...Vice President was crippled by the vote of the entire country. The President-reject was similarly crippled but he at least has the responsibility and power to "run the country" until March 4. With little enough to do before his rejection, a defeated Vice President is a figurehead indeed. Charles Curtis' defeat ("the first popular election I ever lost") kept intact the record that no Republican Vice President has ever been able to succeed himself...
...Katz became stronger in Paramount. Lasky and Zukor lost caste but Zukor kept his figurehead presidency. Lasky's last ace was his long-term contract, said to give him $9,000 a week. The final squabbles evidently concerned the cost of buying in this gold-plated contract. Before he left on his leave of absence, Lasky had given Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument...