Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Househunters huffed loudly when Philip and Elizabeth were given huge Clarence House, once the London home of Queen Victoria's "sailor son," the Duke of Edinburgh, as an extra residence. Rationed housewives snorted at news stories of visiting royalty wining & dining at public expense. But for many another Londoner, the wedding was a happy excuse to forget personal hardships, to sentimentalize and enjoy again the elaborate and almost forgotten pageantry of royalty on display. "Why, I can feel myself getting excited already," said a City office girl a week before the event...
...House Social Service Committee. Today nearly half of the entire PBH program, manning the settlement houses began inauspiciously before the turn of the century when there was no central agency in the College to correlate scattered social consciences. Religious groups alone recruited contingents--for charitable work in the old Sailor's Home. By the Nineties duplication of effort brought amalgamation in the Student Volunteer Committee, which eventually called itself the Social Service Committee and took up its present quarters when Brooks House opened...
...commenting on student social work in an Old Sailor's Home, the Harvard Illustrated Magazine observed that "The four walls of a student's room mark a narrow horizon." Today, in an even more closely interdependent and socially conscious society; the evision of many Harvard men towards the community surrounding the college seems bounded by the same limitations. It is easy to remain oblivious to the needs of a world outside the Houses and feel satisfied with a tight little circle of friends and what extra-curricular activities the University has to offer. With only three percent of the student...
...saltiest sailor aboard, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...
...Gude Sir Patrick Spens" in the old Scottish ballad was "the best when sailor that ever sail'd the sea." Nevertheless, when the King assigned him to command a bad-weather cruise to Norway, gude Sir Patrick asked a question his namesake may have cause to repeat: "O wha is this has done this deed and tauld the king...