[indignity] and the old gray lady refuses to budge

I’m a sailor and we’re known for being a pretty eccentric bunch, ascribing all sorts of human qualities to our craft and coaxing and loving the ladies as we would do our women. Except for Pacific Proas, which are boys, ships are ladies, after all. So when I read this in the NY Times about Intrepid refusing to budge from its home, I had to chuckle. “Old gray lady Intrepid did not want to heave her home in New York,” Bill White, president of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, said in a televised interview. “She does have to go,” he said. Ha! And ha again! Obviously not a seaman, our Mr. White.