Word: landsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weatherbeaten yachtsmen, grizzled veterans of the briny off-shore deep, were somewhat inclined to shake their heads over such cushy concessions to landsmen as wicker chairs, percolators, automobile steering wheels. Yet motor boat makers well retorted that the motor boat is a pleasure craft, that a large proportion of its buyers are looking chiefly for a seagoing automobile, that it is women who furnish the chief sales resistance and for whose sake galleys, for example, are sometimes described as "kitchenettes." It is with the amateur sailor that the future of the motor boat lies...
...England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops...
...endless stream of obvious landsmen with nautical aspirations tramped bravely up the gangways and roamed the concentrated, neat interiors. Women fingered cooking utensils professionally. Experts hung at precarious angles peering into mechanical viscera. Small boys delighted to honk horns or to seat themselves surreptitiously when salesmen, displaying tasteful arrays of toilet accessories, were not looking...
...would not have mattered had it not been so very typical of Baron Kylsant. Because he came to shipping not from the sea but from Newton College, South Devon, he has not the mariner's longing to do everything in "the good old way," but sees ships, as landsmen do, chiefly as a means to get men, food and merchandise from one dry place to another...
Most of this rudeness comes from those unsympathetic landsmen of the upper Mississippi valley. Enough pledges to defeat the subsidy have been secured by the newly hatched Senator Brookhart of lowa, whose precocity is something unprecedented. To be sure that good, old-fashioned "children should be seen and not heard" idea has long been dead; and Senator La Follette, a proven veteran of many a filibustering campaign, helped drive the balls into the come in his teaching days. The newcomers out of the West, Frasler, Shipstead, and Brookhart, together with the old Lochinvars, Borah, La Follette, and Norris...