Word: masefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisions to be made (should they take the crown along?-they decided against it). But at long last everything was packed and ready. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered to kiss the travelers goodbye and neighbors lined the streets to wave them away. An elderly well-wisher (Poet Laureate John Masefield) had even written a little verse...
...CHUM - John Masefield - Moc-millan...
...dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same as me." And the old hand passed on the news: "He says he's a orphan." "Well...
...Used to It." New Chum Masefield had no time to marvel. His first day swept by in a hurricane of piercing whistles, pipes and clanging bells. He labored away on some engine (he was assured it was a pump) until his arms hung like strings; he hauled on a rope as thick as his ankle-hauled so well that until his head hit the deck some yards away he didn't know that his 80 mates were hauling in the opposite direction...
...John Masefield, now 65, was moved to pen a letter to the London Times. Virtually the only solace he and his wife had got out of any newspapers in years, wrote the poet, was the Times's crossword puzzles...