Word: docked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Government should." In vain, Sir Patrick protested that Mr. Campbell was only acting editor" of the Worker's Weekly, that he was a citizen of the U. S., and that his distinguished War service had left him so crippled that he could "hardly hobble into the dock." Conservatives refused to believe that Sir Patrick had acted from motives of humanity and raised a hue and cry against the Government for pampering Communists" amid which the Cabinet was voted from power...
EAST OF MANSION HOUSE - Thomas Burke-Doran ($2). A Cockney urchin once gazed through the musty windows of an old Chinaman's store in the India Dock Road and experienced some-thing unforgettable. Whether it was a glory, a wisdom or a peace passing understanding, the urchin has never yet been able to say in so many words. But it was an experience sufficient to supply Thomas Burke with a lifetime's devotion to the Limehouse district of London, where he and Charles Spencer Chaplin were Cockney urchins together. He is still writing out of the heart...
...British submarine H-29, tilted suddenly and inexplicably at her dock in Devonport Basin last week, sank within a minute and a half. Some men leaped to the wharf, some into the water; none died. Four other British submarines have sunk since...
...dreary, rainy inauguration day augured ill for the widowed Governess. She had not been long in office before cocaine-dusted political rivals tampered records, made her son illegitimate. Soon, by further dirty work, the same son stood white-faced in a prisoner's dock to receive a murderer's death sentence. The Governess arose, screamed, "And I shall pardon him! It is my right!" Shouts from outside penetrated the wrecked, nerve-shaken courtroom. "Extra! Extra! Governess Fenway impeached!" . . . Her Honor, the Governor, released last week, is a good cinema...
...afternoons have been at old Fort Slocum near New Rochelle, N. Y., and another occurred last week. Private James Stanley and others stripped off their regimentals and jumped into Long Island Sound from the Fort coal dock. Half way over to Glen Island, Stanley's stomach was griped. He floundered. Ashore some sharp-eyes saw him, telephoned the Quartermaster for a launch, seized a towel, waved at a hovering seaplane...