Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many a sailor shanghaied at Aden, has been carried round Cape Guardafui, easternmost point of Africa, and down its coast to Zanzibar, without ever knowing that after passing the Cape he sailed for 1,000 miles past the Italian protectorate of Somaliland...
...makes the acquaintance, one day on leave, of a spinster seamstress. She falls in love with him. He promises to come back to her and eventually does. The U. S. Navy in person assisted in the filming of many scenes. "Cripes" and "spigotty" are givtn as U. S. sailor talk. The net entertainment profit is very...
...Rogers Peet Co., clothiers, have five stores in Manhattan. Although few of the many Manhattan gentlemen who cover the span between their swaddling and their graveclothes in the sailor-suitings, Norfolks, long pants and cutaways of this concern, have ever beheld, in the flesh, either Mr. Rogers or Mr. Peet, few are without their conception of the personal appearance of these able outfitters. They envision Rogers as a spindling little man, whose pathetic shanks, shrunken torso and desiccated arms, contrast oddly with the twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet...
...Eskimo sailor had deserted in mid-Arctic, taking a gun and scoop shovel. Signal lights were left out for him and after several days mushing in the icepack he returned, sadder, wiser...
...also recalled that the famed sailor is but 54 and that Lady Beatty is a daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago...