Word: sailorful
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...stupidity of colonial government and everything about it. There is an express- ive and all inclusive word which fits the characters presented by Messrs. Raymond Massey and John Carradine to a T. Mr. Massey feels it incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic pleasure in trying to break the will of the same. And all the while Mr. Hall is suffering from the folly he does not understand, a lovely wife, Dorothy Lamour, is waiting on the island paradise of Manukura...
...opera-buffa composed when he was 18; Angelique, music by contemporary Frenchman Jacques Ibert, the story of a shopkeeper's efforts to sell his shrewish wife; Le Pauvre Matelot, a "lament in one act," music by Darius Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice...
...years of such notable scapegraces as Utrillo, 46-year-old Kisling surprised gallery-goers with his weight of opulent color and delicate draughtsmanship. Included were two nudes of Kiki, catlike Queen of the Paris models, who once called Kisling "the swellest guy in the world," now sings sailor songs in her own Paris cafe...
Twenty-eight-year-old Author Sommerfield, whose education was, as he says, "dubious," ducked school at 16 and worked as sailor, carpenter, stage manager, had one novel published, May Day, before enlisting for Spain. Volunteering in October 1936, he saw six months action, was at one time reported dead, returned this spring to England "to discredit this rumor," is now living in Lancashire...
...Nantucket sailor taught the Vagabond more of serious sailing...