Word: sailorful
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...overseas cap-although they were still not up to the crisp splendor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime COMINCH and Chief of Naval Operations, who-looking like an embossed pillar of naval majesty surmounted by scrambled eggs-was named last week by Apparel Arts as the best-dressed sailor...
...Soon Sailor Slobodkin (self-described as "a fat, soft guy with glasses") found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...
...clerk tried to smile. Pushing the bulge to a sharper point, the sailor again ordered: "C'mere." The clerk bolted out the front door...
...give me that bull -," growled the sailor. "Have a drink," and he went back to his bottle...
Another American in the shop finally coaxed the sailor out by offering to take his picture. There was a ricksha outside and the drunken sailor climbed in, posing. "The guys on East 136th Street'11 get a kick out of seeing this," he said. A crowd of Chinese watched while his ricksha rolled away...