Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...
...want wigs" was one keynote struck at this Convention. Another was: "Feminism is now an asset to women attorneys. It is the girl with the real womanly qualities who now appeals to judges and juries. . . . The flat-heeled, sailor-hatted, high-collared woman lawyer is out of date...
These lines of Boddoes' strike the key-note of the Masefield anthology of sea-verse, "A Sailor's Geuland," which is to be reissued this week-by Macmillan...
...certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into the unknown than any other living being has yet been. It is rash, reckless, and usually productive of little immediate good; but had it not been a moving force since the beginning of history, Vespucci had been an obscure Portuguese sailor, and the western prairies would still be the hunting ground of the coyote and the timber wolf...
...only setting used in the production is a sketchy ship, the prow, stern and mast of which are quite naively carried on by the phantom sailors and slipped into place on the stage. Despite this transparency of presentation, a weirdly moving effect is achieved, even when a dead sailor puts his hand up to rock the mast in a storm...