Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign military and naval observers have long admired him for his ability to avoid capture for two years without entering a Confederate port...
...Instead of reviewing the book, your author has attacked Southern Naval Policy. . . . How about Lincoln's naval policy? If his navy hadn't been so busy blockading every Confederate port and starving Southern women and children to death while his armies were marching around pillaging and burning everything in sight, he might have saved his merchant marine...
...Port Angeles, Wash...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously...
Races between fishing schooners are an old Gloucester specialty. They flourished 100 years ago when rival skippers tried to beat one another to port to get a better price for their cargoes of fresh fish. Last week Gloucester's crinkled old salts gloomily watched a race between the only two full-rigged schooners left in the North Atlantic fishing fleet: Lunenberg's Bluenose and Gloucester's Gertrude L. Thebaud. It was the finale of a three-out-of-five series born in 1920 out of rivalry between Nova Scotian and Gloucester fishing vessels...