Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...window washed him out of another, how he swam clear of the ship. When the inquiry was over he was sent to sea as navigating officer on a cruiser. Commander Alger Herman Dresel, who has been the Macon's skipper since it first emerged from the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, will take command of the Naval Air Station at Sunnyvale, Calif. Onetime commander of both the Los Angeles and Akron, he is the first officer to command three U. S. airships. Among other announced lighter-than-air transfers was that of Commander Charles Ernery Rosendahl from sea duty to take...
WHISPERING TONGUES-Laurence Kirk -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The gossip of an English village brings Forster-Daintree to the dock after his wife's death and his almost immediate second marriage. Although he is acquitted, the whisper of poisoner still persists. The village doors are locked at night. Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration. When death of the clan's head reveals murder for pride, the village breathes again, but does not understand...
...island, Drama-critic Percy Hammond managed to telephone in from East Hampton that he had eaten his last can of salmon. Just north of him, at Montauk Point, the heavy seas ripped half of the New London ferry dock away...
...aged man who says he is George V's natural nephew (TIME, Dec. 25), a bevy of fashionably dressed English women turned up in London's famed Old Bailey last week and were kissed in impartial rotation by Prisoner Clarence Guy Gordon-Haddon before he entered the dock...
...this time the tide was rising. Forward oil tanks and ammunition magazines were emptied onto lighters. Finally the Nelson floated off by herself and returned to her Portsmouth dock for a hasty examination before proceeding on her three-month cruise to the West Indies...