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Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
Behind brilliant troops and massed bands, some 20,000 welcomers jam-packed the streets around the dock. Bright with fluttering pennons, French warships crowded the harbor. Airplanes droned overhead. Slowly the Jugoslavian warship drew in and docked. Erect and grave, King Alexander marched with his entourage down the gangplank. Minister Barthou stepped forward, smiling. The two men shook hands, chatted a moment. Officials, aides, secret service men clustered around them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into...
...thousand eager people roped off in Washington's Union Station, not the small boys who climbed the iron fence, not the trainmen perched on the roof of the train shed, not the photographers and newsreel men nor the assemblage of notables who climbed the gangplank to his private car in order of precedence made President Roosevelt's homecoming a thing of triumph. That triumph was written large across the land in a series of popular welcomes which reduced Washington's reception to peewee proportions...
...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...