Word: gangplank
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...Southampton quayside was decked with flags of all nations and with 500 dockhands, shipwrights, soldiers, sailors and sundry Sotonians (city natives). As the tankless warrior walked down the gangplank, the good old English air shook with good old English free speech...
...Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch of Commies marched up the gangplank with big Joe, and took officers' quarters...
...spoke excited German. Voices were raised in beer-hall airs as the schnapps went down (in violation of Navy regulations). By remoter bulkheads, the Nazis held hands with American girls. Empty rye bottles rolled clanking under bunks. The loneliest man on board was the single U.S. Marine guarding the gangplank...
Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
...best advertising slogans of the 20s and 30s was "the longest gangplank in the world." It meant the French Line-and Gallic cuisine, Gallic wines, service flavored with I-kiss-your-hand-Madame. Today the luxurious gangplank is abbreviated. Normandie, Champlain, Paris are all gone. Only lie de France, queen of luxury, and the slow-going De Grasse are left. Of the line's 53 freighters only 22 are still afloat. But the gangplank is to be rebuilt...