Word: longboat
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...tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...Early last year Marge decided to move to Florida, bought land adjacent to the Gulf Coast resort of Sarasota-and told acquaintances that she had induced her friends to head South with her. In April 1965, the Coppolinos settled in a white stucco home on fashion able Longboat Key off Sarasota. Marge later moved into a house next door...
...steam, eventually (1944) became the gold-encrusted commodore of the Cunard-White Star Line and successively master of the world's greatest sea queens, Mary and Elizabeth. Now 75 and living in well-fed Australian retirement, Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset sits in the lee of the longboat and spins a salty yarn of life in an oldtime square-rigger. On his first voyage, Bisset was seasick. The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet. Though he has never been seasick since, Commodore Bisset notes ruefully: "I have always...
...Aleutian island. The faces of some were painted blue, he says, and they were "screeching" at each other at the top of their lungs. The Russians sent men ashore to parley. The Aleuts held one of them captive, and tried with unmannerly glee to drag the Russian longboat on to the rocks by its painter. Waxell called for musketry, aimed high; the Aleuts fell flat on their faces from shock. All in all, the Russians were unimpressed with the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, especially with their custom of plugging the nose with tough grass: "When they took this...
...Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra was born. The writer's life outlasted the Siglo de oro (Golden Century) of Spain's empire; he died in the same year (1616) as his great contemporary, Shakespeare. A soldier, like every active Spaniard of his period, Cervantes commanded a longboat against the Turks at the decisive sea fight of Lepanto (1571) and got his left hand crushed. The Christian commander, Don John of Austria, later gave him a letter of commendation. Carrying the letter, Cervantes was captured by the Turks and held in Algiers for ransom until...