Word: sloop
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...didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger's Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria...
John L Sullivan,*Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and rumored successor to Secretary Forrestal), lent an influential hand to the rescue of a disabled sloop off the New Hampshire shore. Weekending at Little Boars Head, he reported the craft's plight to the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and a Navy tug towed the sloop ashore...
...Atlantic last week by his biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down...
Errol Flynn, well-known Hollywood yachtsman, had a new idea about boats, considered converting a sloop into a floating aquarium...
...Corps made its first beachhead landing in the first year of its existence, 1776. That was on New Providence, the Bahama Islands, when Captain Samuel Nicholas took 220 marines and 50 sailors ashore as the schooner Wasp and the sloop Providence laid down supporting fire. Captain Nicholas captured 71 cannon, 115 mortars, 24 casks of powder, suffered no casualties...