Word: docked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...homeward bound" pennant 170*ft. long, decked with 13 stars, some of which had perforce been snipped out of pink lingerie, wriggled and writhed in the breezes of New York harbor. Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on their heads for clinging...
...October, Ellsworth will meet his chief at a U. S. dock, discuss a polar flight by small dirigible or super sea plane...
...Secretary General of the Association quarreled with the captain and fired him. There also the chief engineer obtained a lien on the vessel for unpaid wages. Also, the chief steward was arrested for shooting a woman there in 1914. On the return journey, the boat collided with a dock at Charleston (S. C.) and injured herself...
...first glance succumbed to his conversation and dancing. Arlen, when not too tired by the vast entertainment which 15 showered around him, is pleasant, witty and kindly. He is cordial to all comers, and really likes them. A delegation of Armenians, headed by a priest, met him at the dock; he was embarrassed, pleased and touched. Very nearly run over in the street by a truck, he remarked: "It takes more than a New York motor to massacre an Armenian." The social reporter on the dock asked him if he liked American clothes. He promptly replied: "I have never been...
...course, Mr. Arlen is much interested in the progress of his play. When I first met him on the dock, he handed over a small alligator suitcase. "There's May Fair," he said, "and the new fourth act of The Green Hat. Don't lose it on your life!" May Fair, his next book, is a continuation of These Charming People; but Arlen has not been contented merely to collect his magazine material. He went to the Riviera recently, shut himself up in a hotel room, and rewrote the sketches completely for the book. May Fair will be published this...