Word: gudgeon
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Auld Lang Stein. In Sandridge, England, the widow of Pubkeeper Bert Gudgeon, carrying out his wishes, had a stone beer mug installed on his grave...
Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...13th annual Louisville Courier-Journal National Spelling Bee in which 15 other newspapers participated. They were about to produce the closest practical approximation of the "best speller in the U. S." Representative Lyle Boren of Oklahoma was standing with the judges. Morose, georgette, cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken and the Jersey Observer, 14 and totally blind, tripped on receptacle to win third place. Tiny Betty Grunstra, 12, of Clifton, N. J. and the Passaic Herald News, fell...
...Stem to Gudgeon...
...spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast...
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