Word: shippee
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"Sir Richard finding himselfe in this distresse, commaunded the Master gunner to split and sinke the shippe. But the Captaine and the Master yeelded that all their lives should be saved, and Sir Richard was sent unto to remoove, the shippe being marveilous unsavorie. Sir Richard died as it is...
TIME, May 28, says "Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman." Is that a bit of humor lost on me? My biographical material says that "S" alone is used because the Truman family was unable to agree upon whether it really stood for Shippe or Solomon.
* Administering the oath, Chief Justice Stone called the President: Harry Shippe Truman. Replying, Truman answered: "I, Harry S. Truman. . . ." Although his middle name has for years been printed as "Shippe," his middle initial "S" actually stands for nothing. Explanation: his grandfathers were named Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young; to...
On stage, a rake-voiced orator tripped through his garden of adjectives. The man he was describing sat amidst the delegates below, hunched forward in his chair, sneaking bites from a hot dog and sips from a paper cup of soda pop, paying no more attention to the routine speech...
Making of a Senator. Neat, grey Harry Shippe Truman was sworn in as Senator from Missouri in 1934. The only men seen to smile during the ceremony were two husky lieutenants of Boss Tom Pendergast's notorious Kansas City Democratic machine, who sat beaming in the gallery.