Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next afternoon just as the ancient twin-funneled royal yacht sailed off toward Portsmouth harbor, there broke from its yardarm the little signal flags dear to every sailor's heart. By the tactics of 100 years ago they meant, "Splice the Main-Brace," i.e., repair the stays holding up the middle of a frigate's three masts. By venerable naval usage "Splice the Main-Brace" means to issue an extra round of navy rum to every man jack aboard ship. Again the fleet...
...ferment of Labor activity which, with the President fishing and Congress loafing, continued to make most national news, reached a pipsqueak peak last week in Manhattan when, in effect, Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor went on strike. Actual strikers were most of the 135 employes of Fleischer Studios Inc., producers of Boop, Popeye and other animated cartoons. Shouldering placards displaying the cartoon characters and such legends as "We can't get much spinach on salaries as low as $15," they blocked the sidewalk in front of the Studio's building in Times Square, scuffled with police...
...Manhattan, Thomas Alexander, 40, retired Negro sailor, was sentenced to from 20 to 40 years in Sing Sing after he had confessed attacking an average of five Harlem women a week for the last three years...
...submarines. Out in civil life again in 1926, he put martial affairs behind him for good, took up exploring. It was while he was self-marooned in a hut at Advance Base, 123-mi. south of Little America three years ago with his now famed defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will while maintaining a spuriously cheerful radio contact with his base camp lest men be lost hurrying to his rescue before the polar sun came up, the slight Virginian noted in his diary...
CRUISE OF THE CONRAD-Alan Villiers -Scribner ($3-75) Three years ago in Copenhagen as he stood watching the 52-year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon...