Word: sailorful
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...Eskimo sailor had deserted in mid-Arctic, taking a gun and scoop shovel. Signal lights were left out for him and after several days mushing in the icepack he returned, sadder, wiser...
...also recalled that the famed sailor is but 54 and that Lady Beatty is a daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago...
...swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies she recovered; finished fourth after 14 hr. 37 min. of swimming, cheered more loudly by huge waiting crowds than the winner, Joseph Ledriant, French sailor, who finished two hours before...
...purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly," his attitude that of a "benevolent marbleheart," his wit salt, his style compactly patterned, his horizon spacious and contemplative...
...quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately they traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine and the marine youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders. This difficulty...