Word: johnsen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip by certifying Oliver's sterility, bore a time-honored grudge against both shipper and lawyer. So Oliver continued squabbling, capitalizing his crippled state, trespassing on distant islands for illicit...
Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...