Word: rehan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera cape in some carpeted corridor. And William M. Chase had come upon the bemonocled Whistler sporting an absurd little cane and striking his dandy's pose. But most of the Edwardians represented at the museum (the Phelps Stokeses, the Wyndham sisters, Mme. Gautreau, Miss Ada Rehan, Henry Marquand) had sought out, or been sought out by, the slickest and most fashionable painter of their day to immortalize them -John Singer Sargent...
With a load of nitrate, the Ada Rehan turned into the Atlantic, circled around blindly for a while until Captain Harold B. Ellis discovered which sailor was carrying the magnet around in his pocket and throwing the compass off. Just outside of Tripoli they steamed through a floating minefield under the impression that it was a gathering of turtles. Captain Ellis went ashore with a nervous breakdown, refused to come back...
Under First Mate F. Henry Haas, the Ada Rehan staggered on. At an Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
...there were three pretty blowzy Persian women aboard. "Invitational passengers," the sailors explained. At sea, trouble arose over who had invited whom. The Ada Rehan lurched on around the world...
...hope none of this gets back to the States. I'm going home to get married to a nice girl." But the story, floating out in the ship's wake, was already around the world. The original Ada Rehan would have been horrified to learn how her name was being bandied about...