Word: swabbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thereupon graduated from baby clothes to overalls carved from Stitches' outworn dungarees. Her first nightgown was a flour sack which after many washings still proclaimed her ''Pure as drifted snow." One of her daily chores was to haul up water in a canvas bucket and swab down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from an island of seaweed. Joan tried desperately to scoop him up, ran to the taffrail and scooped again, but the supercilious creature escaped. Over the side plunged six-year...
There are two rollicking sailors in this fractious and excellent comedy. One is Spike Madden, an amorous captain; the other is Salami, a tough, common, swab, whose philanderings around the world are vastly annoying to the first. In every port to which Spike Madden ventures, searching love and its accompanying delights, he finds that Salami has already appropriated the most lovely ladies. Enraged, he longs to meet his rival and give him a beating. He does not, however, discover the identity of Salami until this wayward character, traveling incognito, has worsted him in a street fight for which both...
...might be expected the rivals become fast friends and are to be seen together scouting the bright seas for frolic and fistfighting. In Marseilles they meet Marie, who loves the swab and is beloved of Madden. She, a most charming piece, almost defeats their friendship, but not quite. At the end, Spike Madden and Salami, both very drunk, fare forth from Marseilles in search of further fun beyond the seas...
...buried with full marine honors (the British Union Jack wrapped about her carcass) off Australia. In seven years at sea she had travelled "a million miles," visited nearly every country, known Limehouse ratruns, Manhattan piers, street fights in her native (presumably) Calcutta. She worked her passages carrying squigees and swab sticks, guarding the gangway, doing amusing tricks...