Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a husband in the House. Husband Runciman, as everyone knows, was recently President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (1926-27), and is gradually taking over the superintendence of his father's shipping interests. Father & father-in-law Sir Walter Runciman, no longer a seaman but an ardent yachtsman, has recently completed an autobiograpical work of much gusto and sap, entitled appropriately Before the Mast-and After...
...Royal, Neb., one W. L. Seaman carried a package into a store. Here he unveiled two gloomy and fetid objects, a pair of shoes, which he handed to the man of the shop, saying: "Fix these. Half-soled I want them." Unabashed, in response to scornful comments ill-disguised as polite curiosity, W. L. Seaman admitted that his shoes had never been repaired before; that they were 25 years...
...embodies the usual dancing chorus, better than usual, and impressions of Ted Lewis and Eddie Leonard, and some community singing which doesn't sound at all bad in the dark. But it was the pants that got his reviewer. The pants are worn by two gentlemen named Herman and Seaman, or something like that, and you never saw two men do more with two pairs of pants in your life. They climb around in and on each other, and emerge from the scrimmage germinated in each other's nether clothing...
...been 31 souls on board. Eight (the captain said seven) had been saved by the Paris, 13 by the American Legion; Captain Ludwig Hassell, his wife, daughter and dog, by the Brooklyn. Six men had disappeared. They were all Norwegians: a donkeyman, two firemen, a deckhand, an able-bodied seaman, a trimmer. Newspaper presses roared. The rescued told their different stories. Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know how to lower the boats. In the high towers of Manhattan people lay listening...
...Moses Smith narrative proved to be a real historical find, as it is the only record I have even seen of the 'Ironsides' engagement written by a seaman and an eye-witness...