Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agnes Weston, famed British temperance worker and self-styled "Sailor's Friend," died some ten years ago, aged...
...slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn't discuss your complexes and O'Neill intelligibly. Then came "Mourning Becomes Electra." The public tried...
With due respect to "Golden Harvest," a sailor comedy with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...
...soon as the new men have purchased their red sweaters, probably before New Hampshire comes to the Stadium, the Band will appear clad in the traditional costume, of red sweater, white ducks, and white sailor cap. After coming out of formation, the men this year will take their places in front of both stands to render novelty symphonic arrangements of football songs. More specialties, like last year's "Wintergreen For President," are promised...
...flop into the water. Sparkler II of New Orleans lost its mast. On the Cene, of Seattle, a mainsail halyard parted and the crew repaired it just in time to reach the finish line at sundown. That a skipper in home waters has an immense advantage, any small-boat sailor knows. Nonetheless, when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series, it was an unprecedented achieve- ment. But it did not win him the title. He was disqualified once more, this time without question, for fouling the windward mark...