Word: skippering
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...begun by Charlemagne 1,200 years ago. With 101 locks in 107 miles it climbs out of Bavaria through the clouds of the Frankischer Jura mountains and deposits you in Austria. . The German Consulate at London had never heard of it Dutchmen were dubious about its continued existence. But Skipper Farson's faith was great. With a crew of one (his wife) and high credentials from the Chicago Daily News he braved the uncertainty in a 26-foot power yawl, the Flame...
Putnam. Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan, with his small son David Binney Putnam; Art Young, archer; Carl Dunrud, cowboy; Dan Streeter, author; Capt. Bob Bartlett, Explorer Peary's onetime skipper; Knud Rasmussen, explorer; and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming...
General Umberto Nobile, designer and skipper of the ship, had been touring U. S. cities to the great delight of Italo-Americans with Fascist leanings. These put on their black shirts and let their "Vivas" echo from Seattle to Manhattan. Such was Nobile's triumph, in fact, that an impression somehow crept into public prints that he had been responsible not only for handling the Norge but for her accurate navigation as well...
...tune of thousands of creaking necks, the Los Angeles soared over curious Manhattan, her third trip to the city but the premier under her new skipper, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, one of the Navy's most experienced dirigible pilots. Pressing her untremulous way through the foggy May firmament, the silver bulk appeared at times to be perilously near the slim shafts of downtown skyscrapers. Assembled at their posts were 14 survivors of last summer's Shenandoah disaster. Not least among these was the stern-visaged commander. He succeeds Captain George W. Steele Jr., who returns...
...President called to the White House for a brief conference, late in the week, good-natured Captain Adolphus Andrews, for three years skipper of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, and his successor, Captain Wilson Brown, who served until recently as aide to the Commander of the Pacific destroyer squadron and commanded during the War the anti-submarine patrol ship Parker...