Word: quarterdecker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face broiled, clothes hanging in sooty tatters. The fire, racing aft, drove two half-dressed women out of their cabin. They were badly roasted stumbling to the wharf. A man with a dory rescued the captain's young son from where he was marooned on the burning quarterdeck...
...Admiral Bristol is the only pearl in our yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
Following the moonlit battle, the combined fleets- the U. S. Fleet- steamed northward from Magdelena Bay and came to anchor at San Diego and Coronado Roads- 114 craft, including the airplane carrier Langley and the supply ships. Fourteen gorgeous admirals took part in the quarterdeck receptions...