Word: gangplank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panama left the Houston at Balboa his Panama's red- white-&-blue flag dropped from the mainmast and up again went President Roosevelt's four-starred ensign. The cheering died down and Sons Franklin Jr. and John were left loitering on the dock at the end of the gangplank. Two women reporters pounced upon them...
...gruff, wrinkle-faced little No. 1 secretary, friend and jealous counselor, Louis McHenry Howe, who lay doubled up with a chronic stomach ailment on his White House bed. Goodbys were said on the dock of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Then the President & party stalked up the gangplank of the destroyer Gilmer and she stood away, down the Severn, to the point where the cruiser Houston lay anchored...
...Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution not to offend U. S. sensibilities. Her crew was forbidden to get drunk ashore, and they kicked down the gangplank a loud-mouthed U. S. Red who tried to turn their polite arrival into a noisy Red rally...
...Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There lay Vincent Astor's white and orange Nourmahal. At the foot of the gangplank Owner Astor met him, grasped his hand and exclaimed: "It's a great thing to have you aboard again, Mr. President...
...benefit of photographers the ceremony was repeated. Then the President went up the gangplank, putting Governor, Mayor, secretary, photographers, newsmen behind. With Vincent Astor on the bridge beside his cheerful, ruddy-faced skipper Captain Gustav Klang, the Nourmahal nosed carefully down the 18-mile reach of river toward the open sea. Behind her like a vigilant watchdog for the fortnight's cruise glided the U. S. destroyer Ellis...