Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same thing as when one has been through some frightful anxious adventure, like a shipwreck at sea, or a lucky escape from the charge of a lion while game hunting; the original experience was far from enjoyable, but when looking back in retrospect one enjoys, has even a thrill, in recalling the adventure, although at the time one may have been almost frantic with anxiety or fear. We are in love with our memories though the original experiences were far from lovable. The same principle applies to pleasurable football memories...
Rear Admiral Billard has written that he has changed the title of his address, though the subject matter of the talk will conform to the title announced in October. The old title "Sea-fighting Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young...
...fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...
...Billard has denied that the Coast Guard was charged with enforcing the prohibition laws. "Only a small part of prohibition enforcement falls upon our men," the Commandant said. "The Coast Guard is charged with the duty of preventing the smuggling of intoxicating liquor into the United States from the sea, but of course this is not enough to stop drinking in the United States...
...novelists who compiled The Taming follow Mr. White's lead in being ingenuously shocking and satirically humorous. Idwal Jones' chapter on the guerilla artists of San Francisco's old Barbary Coast is one of the best. There is Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests...