Word: skipperly
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...submarine's black foredeck another knot of men stood. They were pale and bearded. They showed no emotion, only a smile here & there as friends on the dock tossed out coarse, friendly greetings. The submarine's skipper, Lieut. Commander Henry C. Bruton, stood on the bridge, giving quiet orders...
...skipper was first ashore. Then the crew poured ashore. Little boxes of ice cream were handed to them and they stood around eating it like men dreaming. Someone lowered the Stars & Stripes; someone else pulled a blue ensign up at the bow. But no one touched the ship's accomplishment flag on the periscope-a dodo bird rampant on a black field, with eleven little Jap flags sewn on the margin. At the bottom of the flag were the words: "so SOLLY...
...Skipper Bruton made a course for the nearby Officers' Club, ordered a beer. Then, like every returned skipper, he told his yarns. There were casual yarns, such as the one about how he had been playing bridge when an alarm came, so put down his hand warning no one to touch it, went to the periscope, sank a Jap, came back, made a grand slam. But there were also serious yarns about his successes. Eleven ships, he said, was a little optimistic: it included two he was not certain about and two fishing sampans. He had chased a loaded...
...yacht Zaida, property of the famed yacht sailmaker, George E. Ratsey (who died in New Rochelle after a long illness last week). She is a sleek, 58-ft. yawl, built for racing. Since October she had been in the Coast Guard's offshore patrol, hunting subs. Skipper Curtis Arnall in civilian life was a radio actor and well-known yachtsman; his mate, 33-year-old Joseph Choate, left a job at New York's Guaranty Trust Co. to join the Coast Guard; none of the 3070's crew had had more than a few months...
...squadron was about half skipper...