Word: skippering
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...years between two wars showed in Raemaekers' charcoal stick, if not in his words. Where once he drew blood, desolation, barbed wire, ravished women, a demoniacal Kaiser, he now pictured the forces of the world in abstract, often obvious, images. Churchill was a bluff skipper, Stalin a leering Satan, Hitler a skeleton, the U. S. Isolationist something like a village idiot. A devout Roman Catholic, Raemaekers seemed increasingly preoccupied with the lonely, grave figure of Jesus wandering through the world...
...yachting trophy; defeating two other twelve-meter sloops, Van S. Merle-Smith's Northern Light and Fred T. Bedford's Nyala, over a 17 ½-mile course; off Marblehead, Mass. Though it was the first victory for two-year-old Vim, it was the seventh time Skipper Vanderbilt had won the cup put up in 1912 by England's George...
Leaving Lisbon, the Excalibur moved steadily as a train across a bright, glassy Atlantic, and the Duke went up on the bridge to wave to a Clipper which soared overhead, and exchanged radio greetings with its skipper. Resting aboard the Clipper, unaware of the waving Duke, was Refugee Baron Eugene de Rothschild at whose Austrian castle Edward lived in seclusion after his abdication and before his marriage to Mrs. Simpson. In a suite of cabins aboard the Excalibur, enclosing a private veranda, the Windsors entertained the U. S. diplomats & wives privately, but often walked their dogs on the public decks...
...Navy becomes mistress of the seas, the new ruler will have a 165-year-old tradition to look back on. That tradition stems from dashing Scot John Paul Jones, father of the navy, skipper of Bon Homme Richard and many another fighting craft of the days of wooden ships and iron men. It is of seamy Farragut, who dammed the torpedoes at Mobile Bay and went ahead, of Schley and his sharpshooting bluejackets at Santiago, of urbane Dewey at Manila ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley"). It is of scholarly, outspoken Bill Sims and the North Sea patrol...
...rattle of donkey engines and the babble of Levantine tongues. Day before, as the Excalibur docked, three days out of Naples, Italy had declared war, and the whole Mediterranean Sea had become a war zone barred by the neutrality laws to U. S. ships. Ahead of grim-faced Skipper Samuel Norman Groves lay stops at Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut, a run through the eastern islands to Piraeus, second calls at Naples and Genoa. Then, late this month, he would head under the guns of Gibraltar towards home...