Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said rollicking Bill, the sailor...
...such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...will be composed of R. D. Bolster '28, J. C. Dreier '28, D. L. Garrison '28, A. A. Holbrook '28, R. S. Holden '29, F. S. Holmes '31, T. E. Jansen 2L, D. S. Lanier '28. The group of chanties will include, "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?" "Shenandoah", "Billy Boy", and "Hullaballoo-ballay...
...organization for national defense. "But," says the Navy, paraphrasing Karl von Clausewitz† "the best defense is a strong offense." The farther from U. S. shores an enemy could be met, the prouder and happier the Navy would be. The Navy does not boast that one U. S. sailor is a match for any two foreigners but it firmly believes that if the U. S. sailor is armed as well as any foreigner, no one will ever come to war with...
...acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating a faint touch of tuberculosis, that he stopped to think...