Word: sailorful
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...Hearst's sententious Editor Arthur Brisbane was on his way to interview Henry Ford in Manhattan when he saw a policeman dragging a small, hard-faced U.S. sailor out of the Customs House. The sailor, just released from the Navy after a seven-year hitch, had got in a quarrel with customs men, and was knocking them down right & left until the cop subdued him. Editor Brisbane liked the bantam gamecock's looks, got him released, and took him along to meet the auto magnate. On hearing Brisbane's account of the battle, Ford told 24-year...
...Sweden, a Stockholm justice fined a young sailor and his love for kissing in public, on the grounds that such open display of affection constitutes "obnoxious behavior repulsive to all public morals...
...Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...
After a few hours at one of these taverns, a sailor might feel the need to be tattoed. He won't have to go far, since there are five late-working jab artists within easy walking distance. The best of these, a rotund gentleman named Frank W. Liberty, claims to have had the honor of applying pigment to the undergraduate arm of one of the Roosevelt boys; he doesn't know which...
...explained that he had always been a "biologist" at heart, and never a sailor. "Being a member of the Imperial family," he said, "I had no freedom of choosing my vocation...