Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentlemen, my brother-I mean, my son." Photographers began to take pictures from the tugs below. Father and son posed readily at the rail of the ship, again on the cutter after the old man had climbed down a vertical ladder. "Let go my arm," he said to a sailor who tried to help him. He himself kept order among the overeager photographers. "You'll get all the pictures you want," he said, "so don't get in front of each other and get in each other's way." And again to a man who tried...
...Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play...
Artist Paul Cadmus, wearing a green shirt, was found by newshawks cooking breakfast in his Greenwich Village apartment. Said he: "I got about $250 for that picture. . . . These admirals and secretaries probably never were sailors themselves. . . . What do they think sailors do on shore leave? They go to Riverside Drive. The ones who are out for innocent pleasure go rowboat riding in Central Park. ... A sailor's life is not a glamorous...
...night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger was one of the men, that a picture of him as a sailor and some of his fingerprints were left in the apartment...
...DEATH SHIP - B. Traven - Knopf ($2.50). Yarn of a U. S. sailor on a gun runner; hard-boiled but a little overripe...