Word: skippering
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...prow and prow finish, the winning skipper staggered ashore with a victorious grin on his face, mumbling, "it wash shwell," and staggered to the planks exhausted...
...ardent small-boat sailor. Franklin Roosevelt naturally conceives of the ship of State as a small yacht, steered by a hand tiller which, to keep the boat on a straight course, the skipper must shift as the wind changes. Said the President: A year ago when inflation threatened, the helm was shifted far to starboard. Last autumn, warned of a threatened deflation, the Administration put it hard to port. While his listeners were trying to calculate what, if anything, all this meant in terms of political Right & Left, the President made his main point: that to regard a shift...
This weekend the Skipper's 1941 basketball outfit tackles a strong Yale Freshman team at New Haven. Although the Blue sports a fine record, having lost only two games, Skip stated that he is afraid Ivy Williamson, Eli coach, is going to be in for a sad evening...
...HARVARD SKIPPER. Bobby Green, who will captain the Harvard University Football team in 1938, shown after his election at the Dillon house at Cambridge, Mass. He succeeds the famous Clint Frank as captain of the Crimson and is in his junior year...
Stevenson's story is common knowledge. Suffice it to say that Oscar Homolka, as the liquor beridden skipper who lost his ship and his papers while suffering from overmuch tipping of the bottle, is at times excellent and at times downright boring. Barry Fitzgerald, as the disreputable cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger...