Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the morning services at the First Congregational Church. Then they boarded the Mayflower. Up the gangplank with them went Attorney General Sargent, Secretary and Mrs. Jardine, Sollicitor General Mitchell and Miss Pollard, a cousin of the President. Steaming down the Potomac, they left Washington for an overnight cruise...
...departure from France of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, who this week marched down the gangplank of the Paris into Manhattan after his first trans-Atlantic crossing, was marked by felicitous farewells...
Eleven o'clock, the hour of sailing, was almost at hand. Smoke was pouring from the funnels, but it was evident that there was very little crew aboard. Suddenly down the gangplank dashed a dozen sailors, joining the strikers at the last minute...
...Foss, characterizes an old sailor and relates one of his adventures with some savor of reality. In "Outcast", by Kimball Gray, is to be found perhaps the best touch in the prose of the present number. The author sees a girl carrying a baby as she struggles up the gangplank of a steamer freighted in part with immigrants for deportation. The baby dies on the voyage, and at the landing the tragedy of the girl is conveyed in these words: "This time she would have both hands free to manage her carpet bag." We may be inclined to smile...
...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...