Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Is the Sailor. For its unpreparedness to make weapons the U. S. could blame its witless conviction, bolstered wishfully after every war, that there would never be another. But for its unreadiness to put ships on the sea it had a sounder reason: for the past 80 years the call of its own domestic empire had increasingly drowned out the call of the sea. The U. S., which had once been a nation of seamen, had become a nation of landlubbers. There had been too much to do at home. And as domestic prosperity heightened, its prices...
Whistling Sailor...
Good lord, what a boner for TIME ! In the March 3 issue you say: "Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked." Franklin Roosevelt is a good sailor and no sailor whistles while he works. "Only fools and bos'n's mates whistle in the Navy...
...TIME made Franklin Roosevelt a whistling sailor only as a figure of speech to show his mood as the Lend-Lease Bill neared port, assigned him to no particular rating such as a bos'n's mate...
...Duncan (Lucille Ball) is the girl. Belabored by a shiftless family of zanies and a vague inclination towards matrimony, she seems completely satisfied just tagging along with Coffee Cup as he churns up street brawls, whirls around the dance halls or lounges in a hamburger joint with his sailor pals. Dot's boss is the guy. Played by newcomer Edmond O'Brien, the boss looks very depressed as he sprawls behind his big desk, but when he joins the capers of Coffee Cup and Dot, he perks up like a puppy. All in all, it adds...