Word: sailorful
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...galleries sat the Habsburg Archduchesses, ablaze with gems. They even more than the men, hoped that the new Hungarian Parliament would take up at last the question of who shall sit upon the Throne of Hungary, now held by the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Brusque, sailor-like, Admiral Horthy opened Parliament last week with a short speech, crisp, noncommittal...
Sirs: In reference to the controversy in TIME, [Dec. 13, Nov. 22], regarding the appellation "gobs" please be advised that both Admiral Irwin and the party who thinks the Admiral is wrong are correct to some extent. But the real truth of the matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion...
...have ever been transported - except in emergencies - aboard a British ship of war. No maids are at their disposal. Their hair will be dressed by a marine especially educated for this duty by London coiffeurs (TIME, Dec. 27). They must subject their washables to the deadly friction of sailor scrubbing boards...
Valencia (Mae Murray). Dimitri Buchowetzki wrote the scenario, directed the production of a ham idyl that tells how Valencia of Barcelona, coy charmer, preferred a handsome sailor (Lloyd Hughes) to a smirking Governor (Roy D'Arcy). Clumsy framework pokes through a cheesecloth illusion...
...young author of Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo and The Sailor's Return does none of these things. In his matter-of-fact fashion, so quiet that it becomes mysterious, he makes her father a sort of pocket-borough St. Francis of Assisi. He fills her heart with restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale...