Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having reached that dubious region buried in the gloom beneath the piers and buttresses of Manhattan Bridge the abused seamen dropped anchor in a more dubious appearing rendezvous already filled with many of their fellows. Being likewise thirsty their shadow followed. The newcomers were greeted variously. As they made their way into the group subtle, inference and thinly yelled insult were cast in their direction. The crew of a flag-ship always has a lot to live down. The badinage became more irritating; the rebuttal more spirited. Finally some intrepid soul had the temerity to observe that the crew...
...squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some $1,500,000 over the counter to dream-chasing U. S. dope fiends...
...slaver could be smelled "five miles down the wind" made camouflage the more difficult, and upon such a reeking suspect four war-vessels one day descended. Fortunately for the suspect captain, the law was becalmed long enough for him to drop his 600 slaves overboard, chained to the anchor...
Since Alfred Emanuel Smith became the Democracy's sheet anchor, many a Dry Democrat has "swallowed the anchor" with many a different kind of grin and grimace. Charles Wayland Bryan, brother and manager of the late William Jennings ("grape juice") Bryan whose opposition to a Smith nomination in 1924 was second only to the McAdoo bitterness, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Nebraska this year. His method of anchor-swallowing last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which...
...California, or just off its coast at Long Beach, the Johanna Smith, onetime lumber ship, dropped anchor a month ago. Last week the United Press discovered it. Aboard were 13 gaming tables, 38 slot machines and a cash girl trained to give 18 quarter-dollars in exchange for a $5 bill. "Guests" were being taken aboard from the shore in speedboats, 40 at a load, 25? for the ride. The exposure published by the United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons...