Word: gangways
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Following inexorable British custom, the Kenilworth Castle hove to just at the moment when by the sextant of her Navigating Officer she was "crossing the Line. A gangway was lowered. In their oldest clothes hilarious passengers who had never bisected the Equator before, trooped from bar to boat deck. Up the boarding ladder came His Majesty King Neptune, shrouded in whiskers, accompanied by his Queen, his Barber, the members of his Court, all liberally smeared with burnt cork...
...other members of the U. S. delegation climbed the long, steep, first class gangway. Lest anyone should attribute pride or ungraciousness to 23 Wall St., Mr. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lamont, walked the common plank with Mrs. Lamont ; and both smilingly endured flashlights. Since Mrs. Owen D. Young is ill in Arizona, her tall, potent husband, Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, mounted the Aquitania alone, with his loose, powerful stride...
...said the Commander, "the most affable, democratic monarch it would be possible to meet. His speaking such perfect English made things especially easy for us." During the Pisa visit as the King finished talking with a knot of Legionaries and turned to leave them, a U. S. voice boomed: "Gangway for the King...
...citizen of the U. S. was killed, Mrs. Glenn Schultz of Ventnor, N. J., a tourist on the Cunard world cruise ship California. The quake came as she was ascending the gangplank at Kobe, shook the gangway down, flung Mrs. Schultz into the water. Instantly Steward...
...honors (the British Union Jack wrapped about her carcass) off Australia. In seven years at sea she had travelled "a million miles," visited nearly every country, known Limehouse ratruns, Manhattan piers, street fights in her native (presumably) Calcutta. She worked her passages carrying squigees and swab sticks, guarding the gangway, doing amusing tricks...