Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning Clifton and Einar sat in a Copenhagen dock. The two young frokener screamed charges that they had been treated worse than roughly. Einar, when he saw how things were shaping, "ran amuck in the courtroom" according to Copenhagen newspapers, and "overpowered by three policemen, was locked up in a cell, howling for drugs...
...before us in person, we give him the benefit of the doubt, and take for granted that he was born. . . . My parents were Cherokee Indians. Of course, our people don't claim to have come over on the Mayflower or anything like that, but we met 'em at the dock when they landed...
Last week Minister von Baligand marched down the Lisbon quay in splendid regalia, went out to inspect the German warship Konigsberg which is now visiting Portugal. Presently, in the Captain's barge, he returned to shore. As he stepped upon the dock a demented man whipped out a Mauser pistol, shot Kate's friend's husband dead...
...Medina, which in 1911 carried George V and Queen Mary to India for their Durbar, namely white with a band of royal blue. Proudly the Canadian Pacific Line will announce their new ship as the largest on the St. Lawrence route to Europe. A brand new mammoth dock awaits her at Quebec...
...stood in the dock Mr. Gandhi? like Socrates with the bowl of hemlock? delivered perhaps his greatest oration.* At his British judge the saint thundered...