Word: sailorful
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...hours later, dressed in his best suit and a white sailor cap, Artie walked into the Waldorf and explained that his mother was waiting at La Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed up. There was no problem at the field: he just walked up the gangway with everybody else, settled down in a seat beside the window, soon, high over eastern Pennsylvania, he was chatting with the stewardess and sipping chicken broth...
Idle Hands. In San Diego, Sailor David S. McKinley, arrested for carrying a weapon made of iron bolts wrapped with adhesive tape, explained: "I didn't have anything to do on the ship one day, so I made this blackjack...
...court-martial reduced the charge against 25-year-old Sailor Williams from desertion to unauthorized absence, on the testimony of Navy doctors that he suffered from "psychiatric amnesia." Then they sentenced him to three years in prison, remitted the sentence, gave him a bad-conduct discharge, and packed him off to San Francisco's Treasure Island to await final action. There last week he learned that Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews had set aside the court's sentence. The Navy ushered Williams back into civilian life...
...Jordan Hall program included many of her most famous solo dances: "The Cobras," "White Jade," and "The White Madonna." In the last named, she was assisted by a young man named Billy Ross, who also alternated solo dances with Miss St. Denis during the evening. His "numbers," whether entitled "Sailor's Entrance" or "Whither Man?," were not dances at all but rather more party games or charades. Mr. Ross is no dancer, but he is a grimacer par excellence...
...took that picture must be a genius with a camera. Nobody who is worth anything as a sailor his any time to smile and sail around the Netherlands at the same time. Least of all the Dutch...