Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl to visit Manhattan, where she is last seen, in the midst of her loose and double jointed motions. She has already performed matrimony on the sailor...
MANY tales have been written from the first wanderings of Aeneas to the romantic adventures of the Sea Devil of the World War, but few have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole...
...Rear Admiral" Cary Travers Grayson is "as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor" [TIME, Nov. 7] he must be one of those "turfmen" who follow the horses around the track with a broom and gocart. If Cary...
Grayson is a sailor at all I'll eat my shirt and his chevrons. You know how he got his fancy rank, don't you? By being picked up by President Wilson, who rode roughshod over the entire Naval Board and jammed his favorite through Congress. About 200* other Navy doctors were ahead of him, in sheer ranking merit, for what was handed to Grayson on a silver platter. At that the great Wilson's puppet was almost set down hard where he belonged by the Senate...
...General Lutz Wahl of the Army reminded the 40,000 incorrect applicants, and the 500,000 non-applicants, that no bonus will be paid to any one-or his relict or dependents-who fails to apply before Jan. 1, 1928. The reminder was intended also for many a onetime sailor, many a onetime marine...