Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even the crustiest old Down Easterners had to admit that he was a crackerjack seaman under full sail...
...Senator itched to prolong the session and harangue Washington and the world on these twin subjects, imparting advice to the U. S. delegation in London, flaying foreign debtors about to default. The President was tired and wanted to get away this week on his own vacation which included a sail up the New England coast on the schooner Amberjack II to his mother's summer home in New Brunswick and a speedy run down to the Virginia Capes on the cruiser Indianapolis. All week long President Roosevelt poked, pressed and prodded Congress towards adjourning Saturday night. To placate...
...Manhattan the American Museum of Natural History's President Frederick Trubee Davison, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air, was preparing to sail for a four-month African hunting trip with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson. Commissioned by his curators to bring back, among other specimens, four medium-sized young elephant bulls or cows, he said: "I haven't the slightest desire to shoot an elephant. ... I hate to think of killing one of those magnificent animals...
Last January Australians watched the first two of the old steel-hulled plugs sail off on the 15th race, reviving ghosts of the oldtime crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they...
...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 the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin Cecilie when she rolled over...