Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coast" was once more the wide-open, hell-roaring district which it had been and which it continued to be until 1913, under the beneficent eyes of city administrations either corrupt or actually proud of San Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff...
...companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
...setting out early last March. In 1931 the Australian writer-adventurer Alan Villiers with a syndicate, bought her, from a Hamburg break-up yard. A onetime German nitrate trader, she was about to become razor blades and sardine cans. A fellow-buyer was the man Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around. Outward bound for Australia after...
...rumored that grass skirts will be seen in great numbers, while the members and guests favor the attire of Barnacle Bill, the sailor. Tickets will be on sale at the tower for those who have not purchased them before hand. The price for couples will be reduced one-half at 1 o'clock, according to the committee that consists of D. S. Carmichael '35, J. deB. Bertolet '35, R. W. Skinner '34, and J. R. Fetcher...
...Washington Navy Yard last week sailed the Gloucester fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, carrying 20 deep-sea skippers to the capital to petition the Tariff Commission for higher fish duties. Up to the Navy Yard to greet them, as one good sailor to another, drove President Roosevelt. With him was Britain's Prime Minister. They had just returned from a day's cruise on the Sequoia...