Word: sailorful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...went out to finish his education on the road. Slowly he hoboed his way to California, taking jobs by the way when he felt like it or had to. Before he got there he saw his pal cut in two by a freight car. After one voyage as a sailor he decided it was time to learn a trade, fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into the union, learned the trade and began...
Mississippi (Paramount). To many a cinemaddict any W. C. Fields picture is a good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...
Died. Ex-Queen Joanna of Tahiti, 80; in Papeete. Born Marau Toroa, daughter of a British sailor and a native princess, she married King Pomare V in 1875 when England and France were intriguing for Tahiti. Queen Joanna favored England. Fun-loving, she shocked Christian missionaries with her private life, which included giving birth to a daughter whose paternity Pomare denied in a royal proclamation. Finally won by French diplomacy, Joanna made no protest when her husband abdicated...
...British Royal Navy few families are closer to His Majesty than the Im Thurns. When George V was "England's Sailor Prince" he tossed off many a Scotch & soda with Im Thurn cronies. Last week a Sofia dispatch passed by the Bulgarian censor stated flatly that when Rear Admiral Im Thurn landed he "had instructions to urge the military leaders in Bulgaria not to do anything that might lead to abandonment of the monarchist form of government...
Battleship Gertie (by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Courtney Burr, producer). Last season Producer Burr made a lot of money out of a naval farce called Sailor, Beware! (TIME, Oct. 9, 1933.) Battleship Gertie was supposed to be smuttier and funnier than Sailor, Beware...