Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jordan Hall program included many of her most famous solo dances: "The Cobras," "White Jade," and "The White Madonna." In the last named, she was assisted by a young man named Billy Ross, who also alternated solo dances with Miss St. Denis during the evening. His "numbers," whether entitled "Sailor's Entrance" or "Whither Man?," were not dances at all but rather more party games or charades. Mr. Ross is no dancer, but he is a grimacer par excellence...
...took that picture must be a genius with a camera. Nobody who is worth anything as a sailor his any time to smile and sail around the Netherlands at the same time. Least of all the Dutch...
...across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below. He valved gas out of the bag above his head, came down low and shouted, "Help!" A sailor on the deck of the steamer looked up. "What?" he cried, but the wind had carried Joseph's ghostly globe far off. "The sun was sinking," remembers Joseph. "I expected the worst, but I had no fear. Mostly I was just wishing I wasn't there...
Lusty Poet Robert Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...
...white Arlington amphitheater, riffling the rows of flags. At 11 o'clock a can non thudded out the first salvo of the slow, rolling 19-gun salute and a flag-draped caisson moved slowly up from the Arlington gate, bearing the first U.S. Secretary of Defense to a sailor's grave...