Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incognito, and with scarcely more pomp than surrounds the movements of J. P. Morgan for whom a private gangplank, etc. is always provided, Siam's somewhat frail King will spend some three months in the U. S. taking what would be called in Europe "the cure...
...converted Navy submarine with which Explorer Sir George Hubert Wil- kins expects to prowl like a polliwog under the Arctic ice next summer, cruised last week from its shipyard at Camden, N. J. to New York Harbor. Sir Hubert, with a fresh medal in his kit,* walked the gangplank to a Brooklyn dock and stood by while the curious eyed his beard and submarine...
Poor Old Irigoyen. Almost every other day last week, 73-year-old ex-President Irigoyen became alternately a "prisoner" and a "guest" of the Uriburu regime. Official announcements on this point finally became so jumbled that only this could be said: a white-haired old man slowly mounted the gangplank of the cruiser Belgrano, walking as in a dream between his daughter and his doctor...
Most likely person to save the Shepherd dog's vogue is a Van Dyked, pince-nezzed little man who stepped gingerly down a gangplank into the U. S. last fortnight and headed for Madison, N. J., where he assumed his judicial ermine (not his usual German sporting togs and feathered Alpine hat but a grey business suit) at the stylish Morris and Essex Kennel Club show. He, Capt. Max von Stephanitz, one-time cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field...
...black boys on deck that they jumped over the rail, were all drowned or killed by sharks. LoBagola, locked in a cabin, was carried to Scotland, a savage little animal who' would not wear clothes, bit people who tried to dress him. At Glasgow he ran down the gangplank, still stark naked, drew a crowd, was rescued and taken home by a kindly Scotsman. In this man's family LoBagola stayed four years, gradually learned how not to behave; memorized a' few words of English. Says he: "Before I knew fifty words in the English language...