Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month, an unmirthful man smiled mechanically for photographers, took off his hat and put it on again, glanced with interest at New Jersey's Palisades, and walked down the gangplank of the Homeric to Manhattan. From beneath his drooping mustache, he mumbled that "only suffering came from the World War." He then hastened to take a train for Toronto, where he knew that more newsgatherers, more photographers, would make progress difficult. For to no great city of the world could Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett, come unobserved, unheralded...
...real father" of General Motors, President William Crapo Durant, of the Durant Motor Co., made a gangplank speech about national affairs before sailing for Europe last week. About Prohibition, he said...
Boarding the S. S. De Grasse, Editor White said: "That's the longest gangplank in the world.* Three seconds after I cross it I'll be 3,000 miles away from the whole mess." Editor White was bound for Paris, with Mrs. White and a "chunk of money." He was going also to Bayreuth, Germany, to "take a big Wagnerian souse in Parsifal to purge myself of all my sins . . . moral and political...
...Referring to the French Line's advertisement: "Longest gangplank in the world-once aboard you are in France...
...high offices: Secretary of the European International Reform Association; European Commissioner of the World Prohibition Federation. His -presence in the U. S., he declared, is no longer needed. Reason: the U. S. is thoroughly dry. George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic (Judge, The American Mercury), came down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested from his fourth trip around the world...