Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number of the Advocate, throughout a considerable amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness...
...Another Assistant A. M. Shattuck '28 Train Porter G. S. Curtis '28 Jake of the Wrecking Crew E. A. Morrison '28 Bud of Same W. B. Dunne '27 Man with Lantern K. A. Perry '28 Ornery-Faced Policeman G. H. Humphrey '25 Young Dum H. S. Smith '25 A Sailor Edward Newbury '27 Another Sailor A. M. Shattuck '28 Opera Goer E. J. Bliss '26 Second Opera Goer Harriet Huntress Third Opera Goer Miss Isaacs Second Young Man with Same G. B. Bingham '28 Third Young Men with Same H. M. Fox '28 A Girl Marie Geare Second Girl Mary...
...arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability or clothing, but they all performed very energetically. Aloma is just about bad enough and just sufficiently exciting...
After the first shock, the crew settled down very quickly. The envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water...
General Seymour produced the story of his ancestor, told how he had rescued Leonora Hudson, a sailor's wife, from two ruffians, how he subsequently married her after the death of her husband in India. The General contended that John Hudson, husband of Leonora, died in 1786, was buried in Calcutta on Sept. 17 of the same year. On Sept. 3, 1787, Francis Seymour married her, became the ancestor of the plaintiff...