Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank of the Queen of Bermuda, caused a kidnapping scare in Hamilton before he gave himself up. When the boat docked in Manhattan, Stowaway Wainwright explained: "I wanted to go to school with American kids like myself. The captain was a grand guy. He had me with him all the time...
...flurry at sailing for the U. S., Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Woolworth heiress, missed the boat train from London. The farewell party packed her into an automobile, raced the train to Southampton, rushed her up the gangplank of the Europa. The princess had just turned 22. Last fortnight two princes, one duchess, three barons, 13 counts, one lord, and an even 100 others turned up in Paris to help her celebrate her birthday. For the party, which cost $10,000, her polo-loving husband Prince Alexis had virtuous apologies: "We didn't think it fitting to spend too much...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
Behind brilliant troops and massed bands, some 20,000 welcomers jam-packed the streets around the dock. Bright with fluttering pennons, French warships crowded the harbor. Airplanes droned overhead. Slowly the Jugoslavian warship drew in and docked. Erect and grave, King Alexander marched with his entourage down the gangplank. Minister Barthou stepped forward, smiling. The two men shook hands, chatted a moment. Officials, aides, secret service men clustered around them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into...
...thousand eager people roped off in Washington's Union Station, not the small boys who climbed the iron fence, not the trainmen perched on the roof of the train shed, not the photographers and newsreel men nor the assemblage of notables who climbed the gangplank to his private car in order of precedence made President Roosevelt's homecoming a thing of triumph. That triumph was written large across the land in a series of popular welcomes which reduced Washington's reception to peewee proportions...