Word: sailorful
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...face. Under this treatment two of the three British tars agreed to sign a declaration that they were guilty. The third, although his jaw was broken, still refused to sign. While police again held him down, a Japanese detective jabbed the point of a fountain pen deeply under the sailor's nails and vigorously worked the fountain pen lever, shooting ink into the wounds until the sweating prisoner agreed to take the pen, sign a confession...
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...find that it was almost unknown, the only reprint badly bowdlerized and the original issue, published in 1822, unnoticed at the time it appeared. The Life and Adventures of John Nicol is one of the first autobiographies of the sea written from the point of view of a common sailor. A brief, well-written book, beautifully Dound and illustrated in its present edition, it tells the story of a sailor who was born near Edinburgh in 1755, sailed to Canada, the West Indies, the South Seas, was pressed into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape...
...career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result of her midnight dash to the deathbed of the aforesaid Mr. Randolph...
...Swing Your Lady, the authors of Sailor, Beware! have gone about as far inland as they possibly could-to Joplin, Mo.-for a locale. When Joe Skopapoulos is instructed to put out his tongue for medical inspection, it is also necessary to instruct him to retract it when the examination is over. His entourage can converse without letting him understand what they say by spelling crucial words. When they want him to be amused, they invite him to "sit down and read the pictures." Broke and stranded, Joe's manager signs him to wrestle Sadie. Joe. who likes women...