Word: skippering
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Steamboat Bill Jr. Buster Keaton is a thimble-witted college boy. His father (Ernest Torrence) tries to make him a skipper on a muddy river. They reach a climax in a cyclone. Distinctly not funny...
...times are gone when his boyish posteriors used to be chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
...with the American Mission to negotiate peace as counsel to the Treasury Department, and at the close of the Great War was prominent in establishing Hungary's finances on a firm basis. Mr. Adams was elected treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College in 1898. He was an amateur skipper on the yacht "Resolute", which won the International Yacht Races...
Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...British skippers, haughtiest in the world, who gasped with astonishment when Herbert Hartley was given the Leviathan in 1923 ahead of "Handsome Harry" Cunningham-gasped because Hartley was then jobless after grounding first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...