Word: sailorful
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...into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic floor that can be raised for dancing. In the lounge is a huge fireplace of ornamental lapis lazuli, while in the cozy barroom, decorated as an old sailor's haunt, cocktail sippers can sit in whaleskin chairs at a glass-topped bar enclosing a tiny fleet of ancient and modern ship models. Said Onassis, after a look around: "I am very pleased with the job done." Not content with his new ship, Tycoon Onassis also announced some...
...room, the blast had smashed and seared its way through the forward part of the ship-through the junior officers' wardroom, where pilots lounged over an early cup of coffee; through the enlisted men's mess hall, and on into the enlisted sleeping quarters, where many a sailor was just blinking his eyes and wondering what the bonging call to general quarters was all about...
Handy Reference. In Milwaukee, police wondered how burglars had stolen $1,200 from the Sailor Ann's tavern's locked, undamaged safe until Owner Gerrit Stell admitted that, since he could never remember the combination, he had scribbled it on a calendar over the safe...
...doorbell might announce the arrival of anything from a female Czarist assassin to corpulent Hilaire Belloc. In those days, young Garnett had no intention of surprising the world, as he did in the '30s, with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play in a children's charade, dubbed him a "born actor." Botany was his choice, but it failed to flourish in air that was positively humid with literary precipitations. All that survives today of Botanist Garnett...
...signed up at Yale's engineering school, but gave it up at the end of his sophomore year and married Lucie Bedford, daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...