Word: sailor
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...will be a truly gala affair. The band which has hitherto spent early season Saturdays practicing its mystical evolutions has overcome self-consciousness and will appear in true November fashion. This clearing of its brassy throat depends, of course, upon the arrival of uniforms, but indeed without rakishly set sailor caps and boldly crimson sweaters, the band would cut but a sorry figure...
...banks not only have to seek out these philanthropic depositors after 20 years, but also to guard against fake claimants. Recently a large sum was left in a savings bank by one James Sullivan, a sailor. When it was advertised, 142 claimants appeared. Investigation showed that none of them was entitled to the money. These fraudulent claims are often taken to court and the bank is compelled to fight the case out legally to protect the rightful but unknown claimants...
...SAILOR'S GARLAND?An Anthology of Sea Poems, collected by John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). Here Mr. Masefield has gathered his favorite songs of the sea. No fainting nostalgic verses, whispering sotto voce of flying spindrift, cloudy sails and hushed lagoons are these, but salty ballads, roaring chanties, brave sea-tales. Though Chaucer, to whom Mr. Masefield owes much, John Donne and Sir Andrew Barton are well represented, most of the poems are comparatively modern. This is explained by the fact that the older poets, through the Elizabethans, knew the sea only well enough to fear it, regarding...
Like an old sailor of the Queen...
...Queen's old sailor...