Word: sailorful
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...Russians pardoned a British sailor named George Robinson, who was jailed last September for drunkenly assaulting a Soviet official in the port of Archangel; they let him go in Berlin...
...once the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, patted me on the head when I was a little boy visiting Germany. The Prince was with the Kaiser . . . The Prince said to me, 'There's a nice little British boy,' because he noticed I was wearing a sailor's hat bearing the initials H.M.S. 'No, sir, American,' I said. And both the Prince and the Kaiser laughed. That was the end of my contact with them...
...psychosomatic illnesses-from stomach upsets, headaches and skin disorders to menstrual troubles, morning sickness and difficulties with breast feeding. In surgery, they say, hypnosis can be not only a valuable anesthetic, but can serve to distinguish between true & false complaints of physical illness. (In the case of the shipwrecked sailor, it served a dual purpose...
Imagine Lady Godiva in the Easter Parade--she wouldn't be without a chapeau to top her ensemble. Your red oilskins may go very well with rain, but you shouldn't be blind to the flattery the right shape can add; the sailor hat, the princesse, the cloche, the cartwheel, the turban, the coolie-surely one of these set off your face. Of course, if your desire softness and subtley, you can luxuriate in flowers, fruits feathers, wires fauna, flora, and rope...
Last week the fruits of Davidson's enthusiasm went on view in Manhattan. Standouts were his bust of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking like a resolute sailor in a storm, and a bronze head of Israel's President Chaim Weizmann. Shortly after the creation of that small but eloquent monument to the eternity of life, both Weizmann and Davidson himself died...