Word: sailorful
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...debate in Washington over the statue last September. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota's first district introduced the appropriation bill with this ringing preamble: ."Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland Leif Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who in the year 1,000 A.D. discovered the American mainland...
...dormitory sense of duty, who faces death by recalling the heroic memory of John Paul Jones. Cobb likes girls and Costello likes liquor and the radio operator is a sarcastic fellow. In the effort to keep sane under terrible pressure some minds infect themselves deliberately with tiny manias. One sailor hangs onto a Chinese vase-he wants to save that-and another whittles a boat out of a chip of wood to play with in the water that will drown him. On the plunging surface of the water up above, rescuers get to work, and one by one the members...
...does Newman. He married young, has one son, one daughter. His literary tastes are conservative; he also likes detective stories, loafing, smoking a pipe. Says he: "I read very little new stuff. When a new book comes out, I take down an old one. . . . Writing I like as a sailor likes the sea?mighty glad to be done with it, and then very soon itching to get back to it again...
...races-characteristics which stay the same no matter what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This may be the kind of thing that has made critics assert that laughter...
...them, Sailor Burren, Joe Elvin, are waiting to be hanged. Finally the 120 days are up: Blink and Tully are released, go their separate ways...