Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jeunesse doree. He had an ability possessed by few other young cinemactors to give the impression, without wearing a heavy sweater or a key on his watch-chain, of having gone to college. Nevertheless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided that his first star role should be that of a sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery's union with an admiral's daughter, he is called upon to scrub decks, have both...
...Burly, brusque and boisterous, like a bluff sailor, always bringing a breeze of quarrel with him," Cooper had warm friends: one of them was his wife. After 30 years of marriage he wrote to her: "I do not think I am a bad father, and yet I love my wife a little better than any child I have, good as all mine are. Can this be because the wife is so good, or because I am a fool?" He loved to play chess with her, Pepyshly noted in his diary who won. He was a good sport. Once he sent...
...Miss Belle Baruch, dark, slender eldest daughter of Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch: master of hounds of the Georgetown, S. C. Hunt, sailor and?like her sister Renee?an expert rifle shot, owner of a big racing and hunting stable at Pau, France; on her famed Arab jumper, Souriante III: the President's Cup at the Paris Horse Show from 119 contestants, most of them French cavalry officers or professional riders; for the second year in succession...
...Michelson's favorite self-description: "A sailor degenerated into a college professor...
...Michael Maus, the French Michel Souris, the Spaniards Miguel Ratonocito and Miguel Pericote, the Japanese Miki Kuchi. Although his Christian name might be understood as an affront to Irish dignity, he has been respectfully reviewed in the Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band...