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Word: tanguy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...port of the world for spectacular rescues carried out with a specially adapted Russian icebreaker and a hand-picked crew of 30 who stay on 24-hour duty, functioning with the same perfection as the Cyclone's, expensive mechanical equipment. Minor characters are stony, hare-lipped First Mate Tanguy, who broods over his wife's infidelities on shore, damns the invention of radio because it enables her to time his return; and Boatswain Kerlo, a man with a mysterious aristocratic past, who drinks heavily on shore, reformed once and took to reading but was ordered by Captain Renaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero's Trade | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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