Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I don't know when I'll get back, if ever. But it won't be until after the holidays, anyway. "I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. I've given people the light pleasures, shown them a good time. And all I get is abuse-the existence of a hunted man-I'm called a killer...
...mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat was on fire. Alarms rang and passengers started to strap life preservers to their waists. Captain van Schaick waggled his head in perplexity and steered for an island two miles away...
Twenty minutes after the boat had scuffed out of her dock, a great flower of flame was growing through her decks, sprouting in the passageways, flourishing suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail...
That would have been the best day for Death to have waved a hand at William van Schaick. An investigation proved that despite a record of 40 years' service he had been guilty of criminal neglect in not having useful firehose, staunch lifeboats, life-preservers that would float; for allowing rubbish to collect in the store rooms; for having a crew made up, without apparent exception of yokels, cravens or imbeciles; for not giving this crew fire drills...
...forth a bleu, with wages of six cents per month in his pocket, and no fear of extradition. His lot will be a sandy purgatory of heat, fever, mosquitoes, mangy beasts and tribesmen foes who fight like jackals-but there will be "no questions asked". . . . Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss. (TIME, July 26, 1926), who served with the Legion gallantly in Syria, then deserted. He was not sentenced to death but to only eight years hard labor because of pressure from...