Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seaman confined earlier for misconduct dashed to his post at an antiaircraft gun. A hospitalized officer brushed aside his nurses when the first alarm was sounded, ran across the Yard to his ship. So effectively did he fight, despite his illness, that his captain recommended promotion. One tough sailor, unable to find a mount for a heavy machine gun, fired the weapon from his arms despite terrific rapid-fire concussion...
...heartily agree with Sailor Hampton [who in TIME, Letters, Nov. 24, pointed out how much money was lost by workers striking for higher wages] who has a lot of Horse sense with a capital H. Having belonged to the union of my particular trade over a long period I was out during three major strikes, and the things my family and self had to do without can never be made...
...note from Mrs. E. E. Abbott, wife of a sailor, to her mother: "Philadelphia is . . . the most intemperate city in the Union. . . . Almost every man and boy drinks, or else you are a saint...
Died. Percival Christopher Wren, 56, adventure-writer (Beau Geste, Beau Sa-breur); of heart disease; in Amberley, England. A soldier-adventurer, he drew on his own experiences for much of his literary material. He was at various times a sailor, explorer, schoolteacher, boxer, major in the Indian Army. He was assistant director of education and physical culture for the Bombay Government for ten years. At his death his widow observed: "His life was one long beau geste...
...calmly (said one survivor) "as though going down a gangway at Gibraltar," the crew took up their lifebelts and filed above. On a ladder a rating said to an officer: "Damned hard luck on the old lady, sir." The officer patted the sailor's shoulder...