How da seaside-magistrate's docket-entry would read when referring to a legal-wrangling procedure regarding a wayward sailor who "had a girl in every port", and who therefore might eventually need to show his crude weather-beaten visage in front of said refined black-and-white-robed individual regarding paternity, broken prenuptials, etc.
In da Laurel and Hardy film, "Live Ghost", Mae Busch's character, "dear ol' Maisie", belabors her deadbeat-alcoholic husband off da ship with her furled umbrella; da implication is dat she will haul him before da local judge on charges entitled, "courtship vs. ship-court".
by QuacksO March 04, 2025