Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Long, American whaler, cruised along the island in 1867, but its real discovery came in 1881, when the U. S. revenue cutter Corwin landed a search party, built a cairn, raised the American flag, made formal claim to the island in the name...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
...power boat Napeague ran into New York Harbor flying red flags at bow and stern. A coast guard cutter approached and the Captain of the Napeague shouted: "Keep away from us. We are loaded with dynamite ! " But the coast guards boarded the Napeague and found 1,600 cases of whiskey under her tarpaulins...
...league (of three miles) in the days of sailing ships, when that was considered a sufficient margin of safety to allow for the apprehension of smugglers. There is, therefore, much to be said in favor of its extension, even though the mile of " hot pursuit" allows a revenue cutter to go more than a league from shore to apprehend a bootlegger caught openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound position that it is not for the United States, alone and of its own initiation, to effect a change in international law, whatever changes there may have been...
...bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...