Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held the boat right on the course, never budging a degree, even with the swell that was beginning to rise. Night was falling, so he switched on the compass light. He thought of the skipper lying in his bunk below, staring up at his compass. He certainly couldn't growl about the course this time. An even breeze was blowing the number one jib-topsail gracefully to leeward while the moon made diagonal shadows on the curved sails...
Suddenly a green light appeared off the port bow. And the Vagabond, who at times is a timid soul, thought of the liquor that he had proudly extracted from Halifax without paying the Canadian tax. He turned off the running lights and headed the ship slowly up into the wind. But almost immediately the green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor...
Under Fiscal, you mention "after relief rolls climbed from 17,314,000 in January to 18,502,000. . . ." Can those figures be right? I thought there were only some 11,000,000 unemployed in the whole nation...
...also called Poet Eberhart "wet behind the ears," which means that he is young and docs not think and plan sufficiently. This is impossible as Eberhart spent about seven years writing this book, therefore it must be thought and planned sufficiently...
...thought of preaching on a text but I won't. I will only give you the text and I won't preach on it. I think I can afford to give you the text because it so happens -through no fault of my own-that I am descended from a number of people who came over on the Mayflower...