Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deck, with Jon in his mother's arms. A tug warped the ship into its berth. A platoon of muttering bobbies carved a lane through the throng, stood in two rows staring into each other's faces. Charles and Anne Lindbergh, pale, came swiftly down the gangplank. A scattered, throaty cheer went up. Some of the men in rough clothes raised their caps. Anne Lindbergh smiled wanly. The day was so dark that the photographers flashed their bulbs. Jon, in his father's arms, blinked, then buried his face in the grey-plaid shoulder. The tall...
...half a day late reaching San Francisco. Churchmen of the San Francisco area gathered at a large dinner in Oakland, heard speeches and telegrams greeting the guest of honor who was not there. Next morning when the steamship was finally berthed. Dr. Kagawa did not walk down the gangplank and a frantic churchman telegraphed Secretary of Labor Perkins: "EARNESTLY IMPLORE YOU TELEPHONE ANGEL ISLAND EXPEDITING DR KAGAWA'S EYE EXAMINATION...
...private railroad car. At the top he turned and shouted "Oh, Henry!" Manager Henry Hooper of the Foundation scurried up. "Henry, I forgot to tell you: I left two bags of seeds, one walnut and one pine. I wish you would plant them in the nursery." Up went the gangplank. Off went the train. When the special stopped at Chattanooga, the President quit work on his speech, went out to the rear platform. "I don't have to tell you," he declared to the station crowd, "of my interest in this State and in this section of this State...
...alighted with great secrecy at Newark to avoid a reception at the Pennsylvania Station totaling five reporters. Newshawks managed without much difficulty to catch and interview her as she taxied from Newark to a Manhattan pier where, with nother melodramatic dash, she sped up he crew's gangplank to the captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest...
Whistles shrilled, bands blared, crowds cheered, flags waved, aircraft soared, cannon boomed, lightning flashed from the heavens across the Potomac. The sun, which had been playing hide-&-seek all day, suddenly shone forth brilliantly. Down the gangplank of the barkentine icebreaker Bear of Oakland, leading his men in impressive single file, marched Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, retired, resplendent in white uniform, to revisit the U. S. for the first time in nearly two years...