"Navy man" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fronts were gay with the Navy Blue and Gold | |and the Army Black and Gold and Gray; street hawkers| |were disposing of the winning colors. New York was | |on its biannual football spree last night. The Army | |and Navy were in town.... | | | |Betting? Well, as a Navy man put it, "We've got a | |few iron men with us." Yes, they all came "heeled." | |Navy men are asking 2 to 1 and getting it in spots. | |But as the hours slipped by and the old Army-Navy | |feeling grew, there ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... ("Buff").—Born in Deptford, 1864, saved at Clerkenwell, March 31st, 1889. His father was an old Navy man, and earned a decent living as manager. Was sober, respectable, and trustworthy. Mother was a disreputable drunken slattern: a curse and disgrace to husband and family. The home was broken up, and little Buff was given over to the evil influences of his depraved mother. ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth |
