Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies she recovered; finished fourth after 14 hr. 37 min. of swimming, cheered more loudly by huge waiting crowds than the winner, Joseph Ledriant, French sailor, who finished two hours before...
...purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly," his attitude that of a "benevolent marbleheart," his wit salt, his style compactly patterned, his horizon spacious and contemplative...
...quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately they traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine and the marine youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders. This difficulty...
Professor Lemaire occupies at present the position of Assistant Director of the Ecole Centrale Lyonnaise in France, and he is as well a reserve officer of the French navy. He entered the naval service in 1900 as a sailor but his personal tastes and talents led him to scientific studies. He entered the Ecole Superieur d'Electricite and obtained his degree. After graduating from the school, he received a commission and was detailed to the command of a submarine...
...without an impression of life, and the ending is natural, although the device of destroying a keepsake, used by the author to conclude this episode in a girl's character, is itself somewhat frayed and trivial. "The Kandhi Light", told in dialect by Kendall B. Foss, characterizes an old sailor and relates one of his adventures with some savor of reality. In "Outcast", by Kimball Gray, is to be found perhaps the best touch in the prose of the present number. The author sees a girl carrying a baby as she struggles up the gangplank of a steamer freighted...