Word: pannikin
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...time, and that he can do it solo, since Slocum's. The boats now competing cost a fortune, and the race has cost three lives. Having exacted entry fees of .?150, Whitbread has at least shown that it can get an ocean of publicity for a pannikin of small change...
Robert Alan Morse is 30 years old but looks as if he were pushing 19. Small and compact, with a boyish shock of unarranged light brown hair, bright pannikin eyes and a look-ma smile, he seems to have been formed by a head-on collision between Mickey Rooney and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is the little ploy next door, and the vast delight of How to Succeed is in watching this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression...
...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 hesitated to recommend this old-fashioned remedy to passengers in luxury liners." Another old remedy was devised for Bisset's dysentery. The captain's remedies were numbered...
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