Word: gobs
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...every Texas "gob" knew, however, President Coolidge was "going to hold a reception aboard of us. We'll be loaded to the gigs with swallow tails...
Three years ago, one Andrew J. ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed retired Navy "gob," bought a choice corner in Newburyport, Mass., and set about erecting a gasoline station. Staid citizens invoked the town's zoning ordinance and stopped him. They were visited with red-headed revenge...
...messages between a Mr. & Mrs. Duckstein who were respectively confidential secretaries to Publisher Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post and "Villain" Burns, read as follows: "Cravingly in Dxewonx resurge lodgement ailment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrage emerse vithouse punctators gob. . . ." This was translated: "According to Lambert's instructions the papers have been put in the safe deposit box belonging to you & Frazer in the Commercial Bank...
Sirs: In reference to the controversy in TIME, [Dec. 13, Nov. 22], regarding the appellation "gobs" please be advised that both Admiral Irwin and the party who thinks the Admiral is wrong are correct to some extent. But the real truth of the matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion...
Samuel G. Blythe, famed Saturday Evening Post writer, once wrote: "A gob is a sailor, a man of the American navy, a bluejacket, and the term is self-applied." TIME preferring the authority of Admiral-Subscriber Irwin, will relegate the word to the category of objectionable slang...