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White and unemployed Englishmen got up before dawn at North Shields last week, strode like burly ghosts down the long black wharf of the Lyle Line, massed in truculent formation before the door of a shanty where seamen would be signed on for the dingy S. S. Cape Verde...
...There is no record of whales having been observed in actual copulation. Seamen say that when a whale wins his mate, he escorts her to the dark waters of great depths...
...Gentlemen, seamen are not cowards. But is it not true to say that every time there is a submarine disaster the public conscience is shocked at our own flesh and blood being required by national policy . . . to face death in conditions in which they have no more chance than a rat in a trap? And there is not a power here today . . . which has not experienced such disasters...
...over the first two ships to leave drydock. The sailors were quartered in the slightly sanctimonious St. Mary's House for Sailors, operated by Archdeacon Ernest J. Dennen of the Episcopal City Mission of Boston. Officers were sent to the slightly more pretentious Crawford house. When the Red seamen rebelled at this class distinction, officers and men together were moved to Immigrant Home, a Methodist Mission. Experienced Episcopal Archdeacon Dennen took over the management of Immigrant Home from his Methodist brethren for the length of its Red occupancy. Just as their fathers had rushed to look at Mr. Barnum...
...superiority,* but Hot for Paris will flatter that sense only broadly, good-humoredly. Director Raoul Walsh is said to have thought up the story while he was riding in an airplane. Typical gags: "You must have a sweetport in every heart"; "coal miners" used instead of "gold diggers"; Swedish seamen interrupting Victor McLaglen as he pours out his heart in passionate metaphors to Fifi Dorsay...