Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their theory the police announced that they had found Kahahawai's brown cap in the Massie home, a bloody towel in a closet, an unhinged door,.a bathroom freshly mopped, a bed stripped of sheets and a coil of new white rope such as was around the body. On Sailor Jones was found a .32-calibre revolver clip like the one used in the killing, with one cartridge missing...
Four years ago another eccentric fi burst forth upon the world from Newburyport. He was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, 34, a hard-boiled red-headed Irishman with close-set eyes, a screwed-up mouth and a pancake felt hat pushed down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation...
...Manhattan. Policeman Charles Benvenuto found one Oscar Lindquist, a sailor, foundering in traffic. As Policeman Benvenuto hurried to arrest him Sailor Lindquist stumbled, fell, dropped a bundle, which rolled between two car tracks. Policeman Benvenuto recovered the bundle, opened it, found inside a 2-year-old baby. Sailor Lindquist thought he might have got it in a speakeasy...
...share," remarked Professor Albert Einstein to a Berlin society audience last week. For two hours he entertained with learned explanations of such familiar phenomena as why tea-leaves gather in the centre of the cup, why airplanes fly. "Why does the wind die down at sunset, with the sailor left helpless out in the middle of the water?" said he. "This is a serious matter. I was once left with a young lady alone in a boat until two o'clock in the morning...
...then did mutiny spring up all at once on so many ships? An ingenious sailor explained this neatly to Lady Astor. Reported she: "A kind of passive resistance swept, as this sailor said, like a wave of gas over them...