shellback

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Mr. & Mrs. Hoover were exempt, he being a "shellback" with 14 crossings of the Equator to his credit, more than anyone else present except his naval aide, Commander A. T. Beauregard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced a shellback.

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They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards.

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They have adjusted to a new time and a new social structure, and this is not necessarily because, as one old shellback snorted, "The '400' has been marked down to $3.98."

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How could he give his life, with all its fair possibilities, all its high hopes, for this worn-out old shellback?

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