Word: skippered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice, tangy naval skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
Characteristically, Skipper Taylor concluded: "Great Caesar's anchors! . . . If we and the United States would only pull together . . . we could rule the world and enforce peace...
...morning ? mostly women who were bringing their small children on the annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion boats in New York Harbor. He took one little girl by the hand and let her tweak his moppish mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief...
...Hesperus, Longfellow's famed poem in its apparently rapid journey through the studios to the screen, has acquired a hero, a horse and a happy ending. The last is effected when the horse, with some aid from the hero, drags the girl from the sea. The skipper (who lashed his daughter to the mast), is the only member of the cast who drowns. The performances supplied by Frank Marion as the hero and Virginia Bradford as the girl are not nearly so convincing as the realistic energy contributed by wind and wave...
Climaxed by an account of the flight of the airship Norge over the North Pole, it works up to a denunciation of the Italian skipper, Umberto Nobile, who piloted the ship. ". . . This hired skipper of a Norwegian ship owned by an American and myself shall not be permitted to usurp honors that do not belong to him. This record is written to prevent...