Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Naval Training Cruise and the battleships Maine and Kentucky for those from New York. Battleships will also start from Portland, Me., Newport, R. I., Philadelphia, Pa., Norfolk, Va., and Charlestown, S. C. During the first week ships will cruise individually, and the recruits will be taught the rudiments of sailor-craft. During the second week the various ships will come together and participate in the Atlantic Fleet's War Game. This will offer an unparalleled opportunity of learning the actual battle formations and tactics of the Navy. During the third week the squadron will maneuver along the Atlantic Coast, possibly...
...College Education," by Mr. Amory, deals with the promising theme of a Maine boy's over-hasty entrance into Harvard, his pathetic attempts to conceal his failure from his father, and his heroism when he takes refuge in the ancestral sailor's life. Sluggish oceans of local color, however, have swamped the hero whom the Atlantic surges could not harm. Condensation is sadly needed. Mr. Putnam would voice the emotions of a Nietzschean Superman trying to behave like an Elizabethan gallant, with disastrous results. His Sonnet (the form should not be divided like a Petrarcan sonnet, into octet and sestet...
...sailor-hero of Mr. Wright McCormack's story in the April Monthly bears in one particular a grotesque resemblance to Byron's Don Juan when that perpetual lover was sent to sea. In the midst of a lament for the beloved from whom he was separated, Don Juan, usually not at a loss for words, was struck dumb...
...Boynton '10 Michael McGovern, U. S. Consul at Periguay, P. W. Dunbar '12 General Frijoles, plotting a revolution, G. D. Pirney '10 Tina, a cigarette girl, H. R. Morse '12 Senorita Pepita d'Argueles, a Uruguayan Attraction, P. C. Squire '11 Sam, distantly related to Sinbad the sailor, G. S. Squibb...
...dressed bullfighter, who has just discovered the treacherous plans of revolutionists, is being congratulated by the citizens. Bob Richardson, a seller of bombs, becomes jealous at Alonzo's success and at the same time falls in love with the bull-fighter's fiancee, Pepita. In the meanwhile Inbad, a sailor, having been disguised as Alonzo, wins the affections of Tina, a cigarette girl. The second act is laid on the harbor docks of the town. Inbad throws off his disguise and is rejected by Tina but regains her love by successfully taking the place of Alonzo in a bull-fight...