Word: landsmen
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...last week acclaimed a blast from Newcastle-upon-Tyne against the condition in the crews' quarters of many ships. Professor Sir Thomas Oliver, 79, English authority on industrial diseases, declared that, due to insanitary quarters more sailors die of pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia and valvular heart disease than do landsmen. U. S. ships, said he, were cleanest in the world, British the worst...
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...