Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rows of shops of the Societe Anonyme des Usines Renault had been shut down for nine days. Baggy trousered watchmen, caped gendarmes paraded warily 'about the works. At street corners and at the cafes of the workers' quarter morose workers in felt derbies, flattened peaked caps or black sailor straws, harangued one another. They wanted an immediate raise of 20% in wages. The company was willing to advance only 10%. Impasse. Many a worker regretted the quietude of last May Day, on which in past years workers had demonstrated their discontents...
...your April 12 issue, p. 14, you tell about an "infuscate U. S. sailor." Now is that a sneer or not? It seems a funny way to express that the sailor was drunk. I think you ought to respect the U. S. Navy and not use a sneer. "Tight," or "squiffed," or "boiled" or maybe "groggy" would have meant the same and not sounded so sneering...
While still Carl of Denmark, he became known as "the sailor prince." From his 13th year he was constantly aboard some Danish warship? used to go off by himself and chew at a great slice of coarse rye bread to keep down his seasickness...
...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...
...saber-rattling gentry must have their joke. I suppose Lieutenant Turner would "point with pride" to the Negro gob who was mauled by Italians for tearing up Italian money while he sang: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" [TIME, April 12, ITALY.] There's a "significant" U.S. sailor...