Word: sailorful
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...youth he slaved at loading kegs of oil and casks of wine onto tramp-ships, signed on as a sailor, outsmarted many another, and presently owned his own wallowing, chugging tramp steamer. His escalator to Monte Carlo is darkly whispered to have been the white slaving slums of Marseilles. If that trail exists it has been well covered, nay, completely effaced. The smart world will remember "The Greek" solely in his sleek role of banker at Deauville or Cannes...
...burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly intoxicated inciter of the proletariat. These are fat material, and Fyffe has brought to them a rollicking voice that was born in the sea chanty rather than the inhaled, lyric school of voice culture. A few cravens will want to know that he does not even mention...
...there on the bridge stood Captain Carey a sailor for many a year...
...Admiral Reinhold Scheer, 65, commander of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916; of heart disease; in Marktred-witz, Germany. Famed -British Admiral Earl Beatty, whose battle cruisers met Scheer at Jutland, wrote to the London Daily Express: "He was a great sailor and a bold and skillful tactician...
Inevitably the life of George V was poignantly recalled by his subjects in the sad waiting hours. He was a second son, a "sailor Prince," and only the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, placed him in succession to the throne. While stationed at Malta, as a young midshipman, he was on terms of blameless intimacy with Mary Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great...