Word: sailorful
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...holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...
Togo, Heihachiro, Count (created '07), Admiral of Fleet, Member of Board of Marshals & Fleet Admirals, Order of Merit (Br.), 1st Class Golden Kite and Grand Order of Chrysanthemum; born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after...
Late one evening on Boston Common a group of loafers were heckling a sailor and his girl. A car drove up. A man jumped out. The sailor saluted. "Who the hell are you?" one of the loafers asked the stranger...
...jeunesse doree. He had an ability possessed by few other young cinemactors to give the impression, without wearing a heavy sweater or a key on his watch-chain, of having gone to college. Nevertheless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided that his first star role should be that of a sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery's union with an admiral's daughter, he is called upon to scrub decks, have both...
...Burly, brusque and boisterous, like a bluff sailor, always bringing a breeze of quarrel with him," Cooper had warm friends: one of them was his wife. After 30 years of marriage he wrote to her: "I do not think I am a bad father, and yet I love my wife a little better than any child I have, good as all mine are. Can this be because the wife is so good, or because I am a fool?" He loved to play chess with her, Pepyshly noted in his diary who won. He was a good sport. Once he sent...