Word: boatloads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
...home from China to London, the coveted prize of the China tea fleet, though he had come as near as nothing to it; this voyage he swore he would do it. And he was going strong, with good winds, when one foggy night a steamer rammed him. Only one boatload got away before the Blackganntlet sank. Nearest port was at Fayal in the Azores, 700 miles away; Officer Trewsbury thought they had a fair chance of making it till he discovered how much of their boat's stores were ruined or missing. Then there was nothing...
...fortunes are wrapped in doomed hemp, sugar cane and copra looked forward to nothing save economic chaos under the intermediate government and after. They dolefully recalled the words often repeated more in earnest than in jest to U. S. military folk by rich Filipinos: "Amiga, when the last boatload of your soldiers is about to leave, tell me. I want to be on the boat before...
...year from his ridiculous creations. Admirers of Silly Symphonies have lately been delighted to see that instead of using black & white line drawings as heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good...
...crews sprinted away from a flagged line, heading downstream on the crest of a fast tide. In their hearts the hometown rooters had little faith that the Blue & White shell, containing three sophomores who had never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water showed at the Columbia stern and Navy could not close it even in the last few hundred yards with the traditional...