Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there on the bridge stood Captain Carey a sailor for many a year...
...Admiral Reinhold Scheer, 65, commander of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916; of heart disease; in Marktred-witz, Germany. Famed -British Admiral Earl Beatty, whose battle cruisers met Scheer at Jutland, wrote to the London Daily Express: "He was a great sailor and a bold and skillful tactician...
Inevitably the life of George V was poignantly recalled by his subjects in the sad waiting hours. He was a second son, a "sailor Prince," and only the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, placed him in succession to the throne. While stationed at Malta, as a young midshipman, he was on terms of blameless intimacy with Mary Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great...
...christening and confirming, but like as not the christened child has no right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered...
Thrilling wrecks, sudden death, storms, hungry months on a deserted island, cannibals, savage chiefs, heathen rites, drunkes traders, Spanish dons, rogues, murderous fights,--all crowd the pages of this true tale of the adventures of Captain John Cameron a salty sailor of the old clipper...