Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the U. S. is neutral, veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, organized in January 1937 to fight for Loyalist Spain. The brigade mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
...hours before returning Captain Eden marched up the Queen Mary's gangplank in Manhattan, down it marched Ambassador Joe Kennedy. He denied that his second return from London within six months had any high significance: he was just going to spend Christmas with son Jack at Palm Beach, rest for six weeks. The idea that he was in disfavor at the White House for having applauded the Chamberlain policy of "appeasement," he laughed off by asserting that his speeches in England were read in advance in Washington. Then he shed some of the celebrated Kennedy gloom...
...California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed off a bulky wooden fender and toppled into the water. In leaped Seaman Wyly, grabbed the unconscious man, was reaching up to get a hold when the fender fell on both of them. Stunned, Wyly clung to his stevedore until rescuers hauled both men out, took the stevedore...
...Triangle Prom will take place Friday night amid a nautical setting. The "Princetonian" warns would-be crashers that two bouncers, dressed in the guise of ship's officers, "will be on deck to greet all passengers coming aboard. While one salt will be stationed at the head of the gangplank to inspect the passports of the embarking prom-goers, his cohort will haunt the bowels of the vessel to thwart the advent of stowaways. Anyone apprehended without proper credentials will promptly be compelled to walk the plank, with an additional charge of twelve dollars." . . . Washington U's Varsity Ball committee...
...Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, stood at attention aboard a bedecked Siamese cruiser as it slid up to Bangkok's water front. Popping his stork neck under the traditional nine-tiered umbrella, symbol of regal power, King Ananda strode down the red-carpeted gangplank to greet the three royal Regents who have ruled in his absence. Strong Man Phya Phahol judiciously kept in the background. Along the city streets, as His Majesty jounced and saluted on his way to the royal palace, 500,000 of his flat-faced, olive-skinned subjects cheered and showed their betel-reddened...