Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marseilles last week a large inquisitive fishwife elbowed her way toward the gangplank of the S. S. Rajpntana to see what the gawking crowd was staring at. Having reached a point of vantage she suddenly recoiled in disgust...
...curious and excited Filipinos turned out on their best behavior to welcome "Eyes & Ears." Governor General Dwight Filley Davis had proclaimed a national holiday. With Vice Governor General George Butte, he was at the pier to welcome his superior. As the Secretary of War came down the gangplank, the Filipino throng stared admiringly at the soldierly figure, the clean-cut features, the ready smile, then up went a great cheer which oldtimers said was more friendly, more cordial than any heard around the Manila docks since Secretary of War William Howard Taft landed there with his great smile...
Connolly for Mason. A dapper little man with a lot of luggage walked across the gangplank of the Leviathan, Europe-bound. With the same proud little steps he had left the Hearst fold five days before. After the resignations of Col. William Franklin Knox from Hearst-papers' general managership and Editor Ray Long from Cosmopolitan Magazine (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.), Frank Earl Mason was the third major executive to leave the Hearst banner in eight months...
Baltimore's Gangplank...
Incorrect is the statement under head "New Gangplank" p. 38, July 13, that the S. S. City of Baltimore out of Baltimore for Havre and Hamburg recently was first transatlantic passenger liner from that port since the clippers...