Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, in 1944 when she was 26. She was a Baptist farmer's daughter who had been married, divorced, and had a job as cashier of a Birmingham hotel. Big Jim was 36, a widower with two small daughters. He had been around the world as a merchant seaman, had gone briefly to college, had served a short wartime hitch in the Army. When he met Christine he was a salesman for a burial-insurance company...
There was a time when the C.I.O.'s highhanded, Red-tinted National Maritime Union could & would tie up a ship at the drop of a seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered...
Only Ellen Orford, the widowed village schoolteacher, gives him comfort. His ambition is to live down his unpopularity, make money (to buy respectability), and marry Ellen. Sings Captain Balstrode, a retired merchant seaman: "Man-go and ask her. Without your booty, she'll have you now." Sings Peter: "No-not for pity!" Balstrode replies: "Then the old tragedy is in store: new start with new 'prentice, just as before...
...Harvard team Seaman's playing was splendid; Blanchard was rugged, and always on hand; Cushing '79, was omnipresent, turning up at every instant; Holmes worked well; Herrick made some pretty, though not very effective, runs; and Winsor several good dashes. Mr. Wetherbee was much missed; and, in fact, the want of strong rushers, like Messrs. Leeds and Rollins, was much felt...
Conrad was a rarely skilled practitioner of that art, and is one of its heroes. A Pole by birth, a merchant seaman and ship's officer for 20 years, a student of letters whose first acquired language was French, Conrad became an English novelist only through creative sufferings of which it is painful to read; Editor Zabel calls his exercise of will power "appalling." Henry James found Conrad "absolutely alone as a votary of the way to do a thing that shall make it undergo most doing...