Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil opens up only in the privacy of his Tacoma home, where he enjoys martinis and practical jokes. In the basement he has a complete woodworking shop where he makes and repairs furniture. Not all his carpentering is successful. One winter Phil built a 15-foot sailboat with his two sons, George and John Philip III (Flip), now students of forestry at Yale. (There are also two daughters.) When launched, the boat promptly sank; it was badly caulked...
...Leigh Hunt. "If thought were light, and our planet visible by it, and space were time, the next ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
...simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume: $30 an ounce. Its original formula, confided Mother Gloria, was discovered by Partner Maurice Chalom in his French chateau, hidden in an old bust...
...Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire. Day after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles off Norfolk...
...Littles lived near Manhattan's Central Park, where sailboat enthusiasts like to sail their miniature craft. In one of the headiest competitions since the America's Cup races, Stuart sailed the Wasp to victory...