Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tampa, Fla., Kimoto Toono, Japanese sailor, went ashore from his ship to spear small fish. So as not to lose his gig (spear), he fastened the end of the rope around his body. Then he sighted a 340-lb. jewfish, speared it, was pulled off the dock, out to sea, drowned. Next day searchers found Gigger Toono and his jewfish...
Each time a "lung"-equipped sailor left the escape compartment, water entered. Apparatus designed to expel such water temporarily failed. When the Lieutenant and newsreel men alone were left, the water was up to their waists. Suddenly the ship lurched, spread the water over storage batteries connected to the soundrecorder, generating deadly chlorine gas. The newsreel men choked, grew terrified...
...John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round sailor hats popular in the 1870's. Twice only did he meet rebellion. When Georgiana ran away at the age of 50 and registered at the Park Avenue Hotel, Brother John at once had her committed to the psychopathic ward at Bellevue and later pronounced insane by a sheriff's jury...
...four-year-old son of Antwerp's port administrator came to the rescue, silenced the weeping Princess by presenting her with a large pink-cheeked sailor doll with S.S. Princess Josephine Charlotte in gold letters on his hatband...
After two years of talk, delay, and a series of bouts that eliminated such contenders as Johnny Risko (tough Cleveland baker boy), Jack Delaney (gay Canadian), Tommy Loughran (a light heavyweight champion grown fat) and Phil Scott (English sailor famed for claiming fouls), a match was arranged to decide the heavyweight championship of the world. Jack Sharkey, garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner...