Word: sailormen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood and adolescence; but Cradle of the Deep combines both...
...shall take my new 140-foot schooner," said Von Luckner, "with about ten men from different universities, and five German boys, fine fellows, and go on a cruise for real adventure. You Americans don't know enough about life on the sea, you have no real sailormen; your sailors are all in unions, and they go to sea merely because they can get good pay. You should interest your young boys...