Word: midshipmans
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...very much upset; his ship's clerk had been grossly abused. The poor fellow had gone to bed drunk in the ordinary way, and then someone had crept into his cabin and cropped his ears. There had been no witnesses, but on circumstantial evidence Captain Cook suspended a midshipman from duty for three weeks...
That is exactly what the present certificate can do. Any, NROTC man who went to hear Gerhardt Eisler speak for the John Reed Club last year could perfectly well be discharged. The midshipman could equally well be cashiered for attending an AYD folk dance. The Navy has decided that anyone who wants to hear the "subversive" side of things for himself can be classed as disloyal...
...light for football, Sherman made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked a difficult question, the instructor would have Sherman stand up and reel off the answer. Sherman stood second in the wartime Class of 1918, which graduated a year ahead of its time. As the new ensign hurried off to war, the Lucky Bag summarized: "Forrest Percival has been the object...
...Nearby a mustachioed captain of colonial infantry, stern devotion to duty written all over his young face, looked up at an overweight nude (see cut). As a statesman turned his frock-coated back, a nameless admiral, whose neck, broken in transit, gave him more the look of a fey midshipman, cast a come-hither glance at a Grecian faun...
Novelist Goudge's first concern is to stake out a field of action on some safe old ground, and stock it with standard breeds of characters. First she introduces Mr. Midshipman Anthony Louis Mary O'Connell of the British navy around 1800, a lad with "delicate lips and flaring nostrils . . . of a startled horse." Anthony deserts ship after being spread-eagled in the rigging for two hours. Ashore he meets Stella Sprigg, a girl whose "swift graceful movements were those of ... a faun or gazelle . . ." They fall in love, but Anthony, flaring his nostrils, rejoins the navy...