Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respects to Il Papa, saw many Italian notables, was interviewed by many journalists. Next day, he dashed from his hotel, bumped along the cobblestones of Rome in a rickety taxi. At the station, he boarded a train which rushed him to Naples. At Naples, he shot up a gangplank on to a ship which started to propel him to the east coast of South America where once again he will entrain and return triumphant to his native land...
...Down the gangplank walked Simon Y. Patino, Bolivian Minister to Spain, a man worth ten times ten million good U. S. dollars. This short, broad man with a pug-dog face was accompanied by two sons, Rene and Onlino, two secretaries, two valets, one manager, one physician and 50 pieces of luggage. To the immigration men he handed a diplomatic passport...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...
...brass band of the steamship Aquitania played The Star Spangled Banner, and Colonel George Harvey, retiring Ambassador to Grea Britain, walked down the gangplank onto Manhattan Island. He said a good word for Secretary Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...
Cyrus E. Woods, slender, gray-suited, American Ambassador to Madrid; Colonel George Harvey, tall, horn-spectacled, with square-topped derby; Alanson B. Houghton, clean-shaven, florid and grave, Ambassador to Berlin, came down the gangplank of the George Washington together, back from Europe with the usual Ambassadorial truisms...