Word: leviathan
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...incontrollable high spirits." Bogart, 18, was unwilling to face his family. He hustled off to a recruiting ship and joined the Navy. He ended up on troopships and spent most of World War I shuttling between New York and Liverpool as a helmsman aboard the captured liner Leviathan. Meanwhile, the family money was dwindling away as the result of father's optimistic but ill-conceived instinct for investment...
...infinite variety of problems. Retailing stretches from baby pins to refridgerators from bathing caps to water sprinklers. It involves all kinds of humanity; it faces all kinds of problems. It is a dynamic proposition.Photos Courtesy of FORTUNEThis project, being constructed north-west of Chicago, typifies the Leviathan trend in modern department stores. Located in a suburban area, it provides parking space for over 7,000 autos...
...year ago, annihilation of the rabbit was a step towards annihilation of the Leviathan--over commercialized college football. The Ivy Presidents felt that however small a step it was, it moved nevertheless in the right direction...
Appointing a confessor who was a sworn enemy of Grandier, Sister Jeanne began to confide to him her symptoms of a demonic infestation that clearly indicated Grandier as the infester. Soon 16 other nuns, under the vivid suggestion of their prioress' example, found themselves with demon: here Leviathan in the center of a forehead; there, Enemy of the Virgin in the neck; Asmodeus (in Hebraic lore, king of the demons) snuggled in a groin; Concupiscence at home in the left...
...everyone appreciated young Manning's independence and way of doing things. He was fired off the famed Leviathan (nee Vaterland) after a year at cross-purposes with the captain; on one ship, the stewards tried to poison him by dumping roach powder in his coffee. Says Manning: "I was an awful son of a bitch in those days." His hands still bear the scars of knives wielded by a stowaway and what Manning calls "various obstreperous members of the crew...