Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnum and his "industrious fleas," his "Anatomical Venus," his "Magnificant Moving Diorama of the Funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte," his educated dogs, his Albinos, his questionable "Fejee Mermaid" (which turned out to be a gruesome object "made from parts of a monkey and a fish, and purchased from a Japanese sailor who must have had a great deal of time on his hands")-the days of elegant soirées attended by "the very elite of society-scientific, elegant, highly respectable, and probably the richest and purest in town...
...salty, foam-flecked collection of short stories for those who love the sea-or Joseph Conrad-or both. Stories not alone of wrecks and lighthouses-though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely removed from these portentous winds and waves...
...construction "The Faithful Heart" resembles "The Circle", a play which appeared here a few years ago. The prologue introduces us to Miss Gatterscombe and her two nieces, Ginger and Blacky. The latter is in love with a roaming sailor, Waverly Ango, who leaves her to seek his fortune in Africa...
Lord Beatty, known during the War as Admiral Sir David Beatty, apart from being a popular idol, is acknowledged a sailor of proved efficiency and immense capabilities. He is 53 years of age and married in 1901 Miss Ethel Field, daughter of Marshall Field of Chicago...
...director, of the New England Trust Company in Boston. While not now actively engaged in business, he is a director, also, of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, the Martin Manufacturing Company, and the Children's Aid Association, president of the Farm and Trade School, treasurer of the Sailor's Snug Harbor, and other charitable organizations. In recent years he has given the larger part of his time to social service work...