Word: riggers
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...Smoker will take place at 7.45 o'clock after the dinner is over and the tables have been rearranged. The feature of the evening will be a talk by Captain Irving Johnson of new Bedforde on "Around the Horn on a Square Rigger." His talk will be accompanied by motion pictures taken by the speaker while he was lashed to the mast of his ship during a storm...
...Smoker is an informal gathering of first year men at which there will be two speakers, as well as a recital by the Freshman Instrumental Clubs. The speaker of the evening will be Captain Irving Johnson, who will talk on "Around the Horn on a Square-Rigger." Johnson has had a wide experience on the sea, and last year sailed the Shamrock V back to England when she made her record-breaking voyage. It is expected that the other entertainer will be a prestidegitator of no mean repute, although the Chairman of the Smoker committee, R. A. Kidder...
...great nautical pother has been stirred in the Press because Old Ironsides was not sailed. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke made trouble for himself by publicly doubting whether the present-day Navy could muster a crew capable of handling a square-rigger. Old sailors' homes fairly thundered with indignant denials. Mr. Jahncke later explained that the Constitution had an exhibition schedule to keep, could not risk delays under canvas. He proposed that she be turned over later to Annapolis midship men for training purposes...
...York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained with nautical legends-fish, dolphins; a bit of an ancient maritime chart; a square rigger. A great tapestry alone adorns the walls. Here, at a massive oak desk sits the massive youngest Scripps, editorial director of 25 newspapers, amid a sombre ruggedness that seems a filial translation of the father's hardiness complex...
...Charles one afternoon. A bad feather, a crab, a jarring thump, and a splash as one oarsman flashed overboard into the none too clean water just about tells the story. Another bump as the nautical sweepswinger's head broke through the surface of the ripples and landed against a rigger, almost added another chapter to the story but the crew held hard, the shocked oarsman bobbed up astern, and all was well except for a rather bad cut on his head. Bert Baines, who was coaching the Freshmen, farther up the river, was hailed and Colloredo was brought along side...