Word: gangplanks
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...others climbed up into the official car, to be photographed with Franklin Roosevelt when he emerged on the rear platform to descend by the gangplank. Louis Howe was not in the photographs but he was in the car to ride back to the White House with the President...
...DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
...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...
...sooner had Stowaway Wainwright been turned over to his grandmother than police caught another boy slipping down the gangplank, found that he was William L. Hires, 16, nephew of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Jr. (Hires Root Beer). Stowaway Hires had made the round trip...
...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...