Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illingworth's morning duty was to see that everything was shipshape. His special aversion was "Irish pennants"-ends of rope hanging where no end of rope should hang. "Bosun, what's that rope end dangling there for?" Illingworth would say. "Sorry, sir," the boatswain would answer, sending Seaman Brown to cut the end off. One morning, from a porthole, Illingworth spied two members of the crew, arms loaded with rope ends, tying them here & there to prepare a sort of treasure hunt for him. When he appeared for inspection, he spotted the first. The boatswain solemnly dispatched Brown...
...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...
...Delhi, India, a 21-year-old U.S. merchant seaman named Pat Wellington walked right up to Mohandas K. Gandhi and asked: "Mr. Gandhi, what's all this trouble about over here?" Replied Gandhi: "It's the same disease that is affecting the whole world. I call it poison." Pat: "It seems to be worse in India." Gandhi: "Is it? I don't think [so]. . . . Perhaps life is now more secure in India than in the rest of the world." The Mississippi sailor came away impressed. Said he: "Bilbo always sent word that he was too busy...
...Widow Tierney scares so spiritedly, and is so fond of the house, that the ex-seaman gets to liking her. He even shoos off the in-laws who come to pester her, and at length settles down to dictating his memoirs, which are as briny ashore as at sea. The captain's bawdy memoirs become a bestseller, and settle the widow's money troubles. More intimate troubles are less easily attended to, for it is no fun to fall in love with a ghost. She tries to face reality by taking up with a simpering masher (George Sanders...
...British seaman dropped dead under the stinging lash of a cat o' nine tails, Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty said, "No laws are more just than those governing the conduct...