Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels that have earned their way and can take the weather as it comes is bound to be a heart-warming one to every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Cartoonist E. C. Segar, who created the comic strip character, "Popeye the Sailor", was near death tonight as a result of a liver ailment...
Guest on the Vitalis radio program in Manhattan night of last week's hurricane was globe-circling Sailor Dwight Long (TIME, Sept. 19). Few minutes before his turn at the microphone came he learned that his 32-foot ketch Idle Hour had slipped her mooring and was being whipped out into Long Island Sound. Dwight Long did his radio stint, then ventured to the WJZ audience an anxious SOS: ". . . All I own in the world is aboard the Idle Hour. . . ." Next day they found her, mistress of 35,000 miles of angry oceans, a splintery pile on Long Island...
...says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate in San Francisco Bay, a sourdough in Alaska, a sailor, barber, patrolman, tramp, marcher in Coxey's Army, when at 23 his stones won national attention. Thereafter his life settled to its pattern: he was always broke, although he made a lot of money; he was always successful, always in trouble with women. Robbed right and left (he lent...
Author Stone, himself a smart and self-confident young man, admires the youthful London and all his works for reasons that appear a bit superficial. As critics pointed out when Sailor on Horseback was serialized, some of its best passages are lifted from London's autobiography (John Barleycorn) with a mere transposition of pronouns from...