Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which now ply among mission stations in Albania, Lettland, East, West and South Africa, Madagascar, Korea, New Guinea, Brazil and the Solomon Islands. Last week Father Schulte was in Manhattan, full of plans for adding northern Canada to MIVA's territory. During the summer, accompanied by Toronto Pilot Pat Howard, he flew an all-metal Junkers named Santa Maria to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, presented it to Most Rev. Gabriel Breynat, O. M. I., vicar general of that vast area. In December, when the Mackenzie freezes solid, Father Schulte will again fly north, leave at least...
...with you, Dod,' the men declared, 'even if you sail her into hell!' . . . If I live to be 100 I'll never hear sweeter music than the chuckle of the sea past the Girl Pat's bows, the soft whistle of the wind in her rigging, and the slap-slap of the waves against her creaking timbers as she dug her blunt nose into deep water. ... At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and-well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark...
Last week, Britain's sensation-reading public had something else to ponder besides Skipper Orsborne's memories artfully ghost-written in third-rate Kiplingese. Up in Bow Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...
...Georgetown jail at the end of their jaunt, they were mysteriously released at once. Seamen John Hector Harris and Howard ("Ginger") Stephens presently journeyed home to England via New York. The Brothers Orsborne landed back in jail for street-fighting, were kept there on complaint of the Girl Pat's owners, Marstrand Fishing Co., who have already collected ?3,000 insurance for her loss...
Left behind in Georgetown, the tubby little Girl Pat lay at her wharf while Lloyd's agents suspiciously awaited "allegations...