Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Button's practice to call upon God as his witness when the honesty of his ventures is questioned. When his son accuses him of the murder of his seamen, Button automatically asks God to strike him dead if he is not innocent. According to Playwright Levy, God does, in the guise of the San Francisco earthquake...
...take a job ashore, Captain Fried will have to take a salary cut. In his new position he will, among other things, be responsible for the physical inspection of all U. S. vessels in his district, the inspection and examination of all life-saving equipment, licensed officers, able seamen and lifeboat men. On his nights ashore he loves to sit for hours at a window smoking his pipe and watching traffic. His wife, whom he met when she was a guest at the captain's table, does not permit him to drive in it. It makes him too nervous...
Authors Gibson & Harper supply an excellent description of the Jutland battle, an enlightening series of pictorial charts. For those still interested in the Jellicoe-Beatty controversy they reiterate the facts, hazard a verdict: both were British seamen...
...ship needed a foghorn so long as "Tommy" Gates was on the bridge. Sociable, he was known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine in Mudro Bay. For that her master was decorated with the order of Commander of the British Empire by King George himself...
Captain: If you-all doan git off this heah vessel, Ah'll have mah seamen throw you ovah the side...