Word: sailorful
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...will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected to take to yacht racing...
...hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very seriously. When Westbrook Pegler labeled Montague a combination of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Popeye the Sailor and Ivan Petrovsky Skovar, it gave the story more color than credibility...
...senior midshipman and a junior midshipman than there is between a large cowpat and a small cowpat." Occasionally the force of his anecdotes is somewhat weakened by the necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo into such terms as "simian-faced son of a spinster," or "blood-stained Bulgarians." Sailor Smith spent the War in "Trousers Pulling Down Contests" ("the officer whose brace buttons first touched the deck lost the contest") with his brother officers in the wardroom. Between times he commanded armed merchant cruisers, aircraft carriers. The War over, he hitched up his trousers and went ashore to preside over...
This was clear enough to anyone who recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...
Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...