Word: varuna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staged by the Norwegian Society of Brooklyn that six of her crew, including Captain Magnus Anderssen, ended up in Brooklyn's Butler Street police court charged with being drunk and disorderly. The presiding magistrate, James M. Tighe, who happened to be president of Brooklyn's own Celtic Varuna Boat Club, was not impressed with the difficulties of the Norsemen's voyage. "A boat like that," he said, "will float like a chip on the water and never go down. I myself would be ready any day to make one of a crew to row her back...