Sailor

• “I went by the name Sailor Wiggins, and I entertained children with a marionette I hand-carved from a renewable wood source.”

  Simon & Schuster: Master of Mirrors

• “I remember a little piece which he called the Sailor's Return: in which he tried to describe the feelings of an honest Tar, who, after a long absence, saw his dear native Village first rising into view.”

  Letter 20

• “London was paid another princely $5 for a story biographer Irving Stone (in Sailor on Horseback, 1938) quite correctly called "one of our imperishable classics of the Northlands.”

  “. . .confusion to the Mounted Police!”

• “Yeah, because Steve Sailor is such a passionate Bush defender and apologist.”

  Matthew Yglesias » What’s the Joke?

• “Strike Group are conducting Search and Rescue (SAR) operations in the Persian Gulf after a Sailor from the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) was discovered missing Sept. 13.”

  Gulf War II

• “The name of the Sailor is being withheld while search operations continue.”

  Gulf War II

• “The second of the revelations in Sailor on Horseback was the story that London had calculated a lethal dose of morphine and killed himself with it some time during the night of November 21-22, 1916.”

  Wolf Dying: Page II

• “(NNS) -- The search and rescue efforts being conducted for a Sailor from the Little Creek-based USS Typhoon (PC 5) were called off Nov. 10 at 8: 45 a.m. Numerous ships and assets from the U.S. Navy and U.S.”

  KIA KIA/BNR

• “From hoboes, bound east, I got word of him occasionally, when he happened to be ahead; and from them I learned that he had become interested in Sailor jack and was making inquiries about me.”

  Hoboes That Pass in the Night

• “From hoboes, bound east, I got word of him occasionally, when he happened to be ahead; and from them I learned that he had become interested in Sailor Jack and was making inquiries about me.”

  Hoboes That Pass in the Night

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