Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as there is something quite rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety
...harbor of Brittany's St. Malo last week a trim, white two-masted ketch named St. Yves rocked at her moorings. In a hall in Paris a hulking, brown-eyed, brown-bearded Capuchin monk thundered sailor talk at an audience of 500. This week Father Yvon ("Little Yves") was to board the St. Yves, embark on his fourth voyage as chaplain of France's Grand Banks fishing fleet...
What Father Yvon wants most, he told French audiences last week in his rough-&-ready sailor's voice, is up-to-date radio equipment whereby he can pick up and rebroadcast to the whole fleet news, storm warnings, musical entertainment...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...