Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history: roustabout on Lisbon docks, sailor, medaled hero. Once he saved eight persons in a fire at sea, was scarred himself. As a ring fighter he is inexperienced. Bertys Perry, his French-American manager, was obliged to teach him not to slug, how to uppercut. Last week he was preparing to sail for the U. S. He wants a Labor Day bout with that Italian Brobdingnagian, Primo Camera (height 6 ft. 6 1/2 in.; weight...
...only too easy to picture the effect of Dartmouth's attempt to cool off. When New Haven tailors found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without...
...swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...
...Bebe Daniels, she indulges in the flippancies of a semi demi-mondaine and ends up by landing a sailor with a hefty punch and talent in harmonica playing. If this picture does nothing else, it makes the feature seem better by comparison...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...