Word: gangplanks
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...departure from France of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, who this week marched down the gangplank of the Paris into Manhattan after his first trans-Atlantic crossing, was marked by felicitous farewells...
Eleven o'clock, the hour of sailing, was almost at hand. Smoke was pouring from the funnels, but it was evident that there was very little crew aboard. Suddenly down the gangplank dashed a dozen sailors, joining the strikers at the last minute...
...Foss, characterizes an old sailor and relates one of his adventures with some savor of reality. In "Outcast", by Kimball Gray, is to be found perhaps the best touch in the prose of the present number. The author sees a girl carrying a baby as she struggles up the gangplank of a steamer freighted in part with immigrants for deportation. The baby dies on the voyage, and at the landing the tragedy of the girl is conveyed in these words: "This time she would have both hands free to manage her carpet bag." We may be inclined to smile...
...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...
...respects to Il Papa, saw many Italian notables, was interviewed by many journalists. Next day, he dashed from his hotel, bumped along the cobblestones of Rome in a rickety taxi. At the station, he boarded a train which rushed him to Naples. At Naples, he shot up a gangplank on to a ship which started to propel him to the east coast of South America where once again he will entrain and return triumphant to his native land...