Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wright, in winning his seventh victory of the campaign without a loss, established himself as the loop's top flinger, and his baffling combination of curves and fast balls had the Lowell batsmen off balance. The tall sailor, who pitched the C team to a pennant in softball last July, struck out 13 batters in a superlative pitching exhibition...
...weathered old sea eagle had been retired eight years. He told the Admiralty: "I want to die on a battlefield-not in bed." Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...
...removed from his everyday peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from the hateful present? Last week, in one of his last columns for Scripps-Howard, came the answer...
...Felicie Giacobbi, walking down a street in Algiers where three U.S. soldiers and a sailor were playing catch, was hit in the face by a ball. Award: $47.50. (But the Army chalked up an error to the Navy, asked the Navy...
...pathos and effect, along with his side-splitting humor. And with Young Man with a Horn Harry James tooting a mean tube, Gracie Allen going through the paces of her one-fingered piano comedy-classic, and Jose Iturbi doing some serious and dignified ivory-tickling, "Two Girls and A Sailor" has something of just about everything...