Sentences with phrase «from stevedore»

A product of the Indiana orphanage system, the part - Cherokee - Indian Monte Blue held down jobs ranging from stevedore to reporter before offering his services as a movie - studio handyman in the early 1910s.

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From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well - muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en route to Paris, where he was to work for the USIS, Julia had an awakening that changed her life.
Above the warehouse roofs, he can see the swaying tops of main - and mizzenmasts, hear the shouts of the stevedores and the thump of mallets from the cooperage nearby.
He claimed the locations were drawn from memories of his time spent in numerous circuses as a youth, as a soldier serving with the U.S. Army during World War I in Europe, as a vagabond rail rider, and as a stowaway and stevedore in Asia and Australia.
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