Word: skippered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ELIJAH COBB (1768-1848): A CAPE COD SKIPPER-With a foreword by Ralph D. Paine-Yale University Press...
...Dyle's witty tongue and proclivity for "borrowing" things, developments were almost bound to come about in the society of the neighborhood, but after all matters went on just about as they had in Barbadoes before Dyle's mother set out for Colon with her friend the skipper...
...previously been used chiefly for bridal parties. . . . Our party was in honor of Mrs. Chamberlain's birthday. . . . But M. Briand remarked that we were also celebrating the coming marriage between peace and security. . . . Much progress was made in our negotiations during that trip. ... As night came on the skipper put back to Locarno, but we told him to cruise on for a while in the darkness. . . . Several vital points demanded a few hours more for discussion...
...tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast, driving rain, starvation and the steadfastness of a childhood sweetheart...
...Captain Adolphus Andrews, skipper of the Mayflower, wrote what was generally regarded as a tolerant finis to the incident in which two of Mr. Coolidge's Marine guards were detected in a lapse of duty. Captain Adolphus ruled that one of the men, Corporal Andrew Chantos of Cleveland, should have the benefit of certain doubts as to whether he was at fault at all. He was allowed to go scot free, and Private Clarence Key, sommolent Texan, "convicted of inefficiency and neglect of duty while on post at White Court," was sentenced to one month's confinement...