Word: mates
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...studio bought the rights to the author's 1914 novel, plus permission to remake the film, on the condition that any remake adhere to the spirit of the first film. With Johnny Weissmuller as the displaced Lord Greystoke and Maureen O'Sullivan as his comely mate Jane, MGM's innocently sensuous 1932 film was a box office hit and spawned a swampful of sequels. The sequels were not covered by the 1931 agreement, but MGM's 1959 remake was, and so is the new Derek version, which co-stars Miles O'Keeffe...
November 20. I being then at the helm and looking on the windward side of the ship saw a very large whale approaching us. I called out to the mate to inform him of it. On his seeing the whale he instantly gave me an order to put the helm hard up. I had scarcely time to obey the order, when I heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale...
...with which we could expect to escape. We succeeded in getting her out without injury, although the ship was waterlogged and fast falling upon her side. In the meantime the steward had twice entered the cabin and at his peril had brought out the trunks of the Captain and mate and also two quadrants and two of Bowdiches Practical Navigators. These, with the two compasses taken from the binnacle, was all that we had an opportunity of getting into the boat, and get in ourselves, when the ship capsized, with the mastheads in the water. ... The boats of the Captain...
December 17. This calm continued through the 14th to 16th December inclusive. During this trying state of affairs the mate proposed reducing our allowance of provisions one-half whilst the calms continued. We could not have reduced our allowance of water for already we had not sufficient to keep our mouths in moisture. We frequently applied salt water to our parched lips with the hope to quell the fever that raged there but that only served to increase our thirst so much that some were compelled to seek relief in their own urine. Our sufferings during these hot days almost...
...book's best chapter could stand alone in any anthology of humor. Back in the '40s, the untried Herriot attempts to test a bull for fertility. His instrument: a vulcanized rubber tube filled with warm water. The bull, eying a potential mate near by, is in no mood for experiments and furiously charges the young vet: "I met him with a backhanded slash. The elastic came off and the water fountained in the bull's eyes ... I have often wondered since that day if I am the only veterinary surgeon to have used an artificial vagina...