Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday the major and his fifteen hundred boosters, every one with his "America First" badge on his bosom, reached Washington. His main purpose in making the trip he announced, shouting to make himself heard above the din of his combined quartette and sailor orchestra "is to assure the President that the people of Chicago are virtually 100 per cent in favor of legislation that will settle the Mississippi flood problem." Chicago is a large city on Lake Michigan...
...Grayson in Culpeper County, Va., came two gifts-an Arabian stallion and a male Arabian slave. Besides admiring that friend of small nations, Woodrow Wilson, to whom Admiral Grayson was personal physician,* King Husein is well aware that Admiral Grayson is as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor. Grateful, Admiral Grayson stabled the stallion. The slave he returned with his respects...
...attention for the subject with his writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Navy faultfinders less eminent but no less vehement are now able to make themselves heard. One such faultfinder is Dr. W. Armistead Gills, U. S. N. retired. Dr. Gills has written two books-The Price of a Sailor's Life and Three Years Under the Hammer-to set forth what he considers gross ineptitude in the Navy health service. Not until last week, however, did his objections attain the resonance of front page headlines...
...this new book, Mr. Milne has given us verse, and such inimitable verse--all about Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and the old sailor. There are no adjectives to describe the appeal of this book. It is unbelievable that after "When We Were Very Young" and "Winnie-the-Pooh" there should be anything as perfect as "Now We Are Six." Ernest Shepard has simply outdone himself with the decorations...
...Illustrations, linoleum cuts by Leon Underwood, define and accentuate the grand flurry of action that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...