Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost as remote from politics as the Royal Family was Punch, last week, and its pontifical editor, Sir Owen Seaman, agile rhymster, able after-dinner speaker, onetime professor of literature...
...drink I can call to mind, is Russian vodka." Let our British friend depart briefly from the legal U. S. mineral water which he intends to stick to strictly for a fortnight, keeping a tumblerful within reach, and try some of our plentiful, genuine pre-War "stuff." VORIS D. SEAMAN Chicago...
Cornered by other U.S. craft 24 hours later on the high seas, the I'm Alone was sent down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
...wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself, two minutes running. At 14 she could curse for four minutes. Her father shipped her on, with a large supply of patent milk powders which nourished the young sea-woman not at all. No native wet nurse could be persuaded to stay aboard, and Joan...
Thus the Union is trying to keep non genuine sallors off the high seas but it is doubtful if they will succeed. It is not only the least organized labor group, but its members are all too ready to sell their Able Seaman's ticket to any person who desires a touch of nautical life. And the summer sailor may still satisfy his yearning for a vacation position on shipboard by the use of a little ingenuity and nerve...