Word: mated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought, the very thought, of a woman on board, Mate Mortimer ground his teeth. A woman was not merely unlucky but against all sea tradition. If Captain Lawry did not know that then he ought to read Jack London and learn something...
...took Mrs. Battice six days to die. Mr. Battice also groaned constantly, in rusty irons. The crew grew restive. Captain Lawry would command one thing, Mate Mortimer another. More often than not they obeyed Mate Mortimer. On two days they refused all work...
...Monrovia, Liberia, bound homeward, Captain Lawry shipped another cook, one Codjo, blackamoor, who came over the side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
...Battice had to be freed from his irons to keep life aboard the Kingsway. Mate Mortimer broke down and died. They buried him at Barbados...
Despite the taboo on politics, observers attached deep political significance to the Smith-Moody meeting, started a conversational boom for a Democratic 1928 national ticket with Governor Moody as Governor Smith's running mate. Should the Democrats nominate Governor Smith, the "logical" vice presidential candidate would be a dry Southerner, and Governor Moody has come into national prominence as the result of his having eliminated the Ferguson family from Texas politics. But attempts to interpret the meeting as a great Democratic get-together failed, inasmuch as neither of the principals mentioned politics and as Governor Moody's attitude...