Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bunk. . . . I ran in my nightdress out into the saloon where I found the Prince and Princess also in night clothes. . . . Water began coming in on top of me through the portholes. The Prince aided me out on deck, returning to get the Princess. . . . They had told a sailor to swim with me, as the captain said that the ship was sinking so fast it was impossible to make any use of the lifeboats...
Into a harbor in the Azores last week sailed the Carlsark, 46 ft. ketch. Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...
...through Oslo to London's overtures, agreed to participate in a prerecognition parley with the British. Result: suave Comrade Valerian Dovgalevsky, the Soviet Ambassador at Paris, received a long code cable from his superiors, ordered his trunks packed, his briefcase stuffed, and hurriedly crossed the Channel. An indifferent sailor, M. Dovgalevsky was grateful for the prevailing calm weather...
Heavyweight champion of England and Mary's onetime sweetheart, Sailor Joe Mummery conceived a fondness for her boy, Otho, when Mary's husband died. He sent him "up to Oxford" to learn boxing and other sciences. There Otho, weak-kneed through love of his own sweetheart, one Margaret, failed to conquer Margaret's brother at fisticuffs, thus losing Joe's esteem and help...
...Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, arch-lobbyist of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (TIME, July 1), last week hinted, in an article for Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect...