Word: gangplank
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...gangplank of the S. S. George Washington there shambled, last fortnight, an unkempt, lanky man whose profile somewhat resembles that of the late famed Robert Louis Stevenson. Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie. Why should they? Not one American in ten thousand has ever heard of John Dewey...
John Pierpont Morgan sat tight in his suite aboard the Aquitania when she docked at Manhattan last week. After all other passengers had clumped down the gangplank, Mr. Morgan, who had successfully maintained an incognito all the way over, slipped ashore, was met by Partner Thomas W. Lamont, and descended in a freight elevator. For the past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau...
...hand and let her tweak his moppish mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray as the paddle wheels rolled the water; all the passengers cheered and laughed when the General Slocum backed into the East River...
...Down a gangplank to Manhattan last week there strode a youngish man carrying a suitcase. He? Col. Ralph Isham, book collector, Boswellian, millionaire?was not surprised to find reporters crowding around him on his arrival from England. In his little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
...Down the gangplank marched General John Joseph Pershing, closely followed by National Commander Howard Paul Savage of the American Legion. Some 19,000 legionaries were debarking at about the same time from 15 liners besides the Leviathan, flagship of "the Second A. E. F." Cherbourg and other French ports blared with bands, songs, shouts, kisses, clanking bottles, municipal oratory...