Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With due respect to "Golden Harvest," a sailor comedy with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...
...tuna are too lazy to chase a moving bait. Fisherman Francis H. Low knew, when he learned from market fishermen where some big tuna had been sighted, that the thing to do was anchor his 22-ft. seaskiff and put out a chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker, bait a huge swordfish hook with a whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five...
...should not carry out my original plans. I have not been ordered to Havana. ... The Cuban situation will continue to be handled from Washington by the President." Secretary Swanson's junket was further deflated 48 hours later when the Indianapolis swung around Morro Castle and dropped anchor almost over the spot where the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch put out to the cruiser, carrying...
Tender captains, chugging out and back to the big ships which anchor off Cherbourg, explained last week that the Municipality has set 30,000 francs ($1.176 at par) as the price of permitting a liner to dock, counts on the demands of tourists for an easy gangplank landing to force the steamship companies to pay this price. The tender captains charge only 6,000 francs ($235) for landing or embarking 200 passengers. Thus far tourists have been so scarce this year that no line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being...
...steaming in columns of squadrons, 161 Japanese warships came up from a grey and choppy sea last week and dropped anchor in Tokyo Bay. Anchored in rows, the armada covered 36 square miles. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down one lane of warships and up another went the onetime battle cruiser Hiyei (now a passenger ship), stripped of her armament, but with the Imperial Standard (a gold chrysanthemum on a scarlet field) floating from her truck. Every man on every ship stood rigid at attention, for on the Hiyei's bridge was a tiny sacred figure, the owl-eyed...