Word: sailorful
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This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...
...more than it deserved. The majority of its people have not gone out of their way to help the Navy or their families. For poorly furnished, cold, unpainted rooms they have charged the highest prices they could get. Indeed, there is no worse port in which a sailor can spend his well-earned leave than the grey misery of Halifax. In the length & breadth of the city he cannot get a seat in a movie or restaurant (and what restaurants !) without going ashore early and standing in a line often extending several blocks...
...Last week the Library announced that its first selections for the archives included 45 features, 48 short subjects, 104 newsreels. Among the feature winners: National Velvet, Going My Way, Meet Me in St. Louis, Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, None But the Lonely Heart, Two Girls and a Sailor...
...President had recalled him for another tough job. He was sent as Ambassador to Vichy. He got along well with the aging Petain,* and acquired great personal contempt for another admiral-Darlan-to whom he referred privately as "Popeye the Sailor...
...engines thunderously turning over. On the hangar deck more armed and laden planes were warming up, awaiting their turn on the elevators. Below, a crowd of enlisted men were lined up for morning chow. On the fantail a little group of men had just turned away from burying a sailor who had died, of illness, the day before. On the bridge, men conned the skies with glasses. It was 7 minutes past 7 in the dull dawn...