Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Lowenthal, Merriam, r.f. l.g., Heep, Sailor Gordon, l.f. r.g., Millar, Goas Miller, c. c., Friedman, Watkins Samborski, Rudofsky, r.g., l.f., Cullen Black, McLeish l.g. r.f., Goldstein, Moore...
Here is a slender youth manfully turning a large spoked wheel by jerks and tugs. You say he is preparing for a sailor's career at the helm of a bounding bark. It may be that he is only the prospective owner of a small car. Over there, a future commuter is practicing strap hanging by chinning himself with one hand slowly but firmly over a horizontal bar. Later on he will turn a few handsprings on the mats. (The children in the party will enjoy this...
...lure of travel and of the sea furnished an irresistible call to the young New Englander. The great development of industry has changed all this, and with the passing of the old clipper ship has gone a large part of the romantic atmosphere that attached itself to the professional sailor.--in this country at least. The Briton however, must perforce be a mariner. The nation lives by commerce, and hence the sea is a popular calling. It has been left to an Englishman to show that in steam ships there is a fascination that equals that of the earlier sailing...
...personalities, or would be if his duty and his avocation were not so closely intertwined by circumstance; but any attempt to keep work and play separated has been thwarted by his complete subordination of his writing to his real work,--primarily he is a sailor, and he cannot forget...
...been viewing a picture of "Annabel Lee." Poe wrote a passable lyric, but the consensus of opinion among the movie people has been that the six short stanzas are woefully deficient in plot. This has been repaired by the scenario writer, who carries the love story of David and sailor and Annabel through many adventures and vicissitudes for the background provides delightful pictures of villagers and nature on the stormy Massachusetts coast. Beyond doubt a romance between a fisherman and a Martha's Vineyard maiden was just what Poe had in mind. We hope that the field thus opened...