Word: stokers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childhood; and Anna slouches in at last, a tired tramp. But having beautifully set the table, O'Neill brings on chunks of the crudest realistic black bread, cups of the rawest romantic wine. After father meets daughter, Boy-in a sense-Meets Girl. Loving a wild Irish stoker. Anna must alienate him by confessing her past. But there is, if no assurance of happiness, at least a rather muddled happy ending...
...quick-minded, capable of great courage and matchless brutality, a man capable of believing himself when he snarled, as he often did to a wavering follower: "Death is easy." During World War I he helped sabotage some German cement barges. By war's end he was a stoker on the battleship Helgoland and was hard at work stoking up the fires of the German naval mutiny. It was Stoker Wollweber who gave the mutiny signal to the Helgoland's crew. When truckloads of shouting armed mutineers stormed into Bremen, the man in the lead was stocky Ernst Wollweber...