Word: hove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven days out of Newport, her socialite owner and skipper, Robert R. Ames, had been washed overboard in a boiling mid-Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant, brought the ketch limping in to Sydney ten days later...
From Nova Scotia to North Carolina fog-sirens in shore stations set up a lugubrious caterwauling, and harbors were hideous with metallic moans. A dozen great ships inbound from Europe and the Caribbean, and scores of lesser liners, hove to rather than try to make port. The Cunard-White Star liner Majestic stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly...
...ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided to run down to Marseilles. He was waiting at the dock one afternoon early this week when the Jugoslavian warship hove in sight...
...course of a Gloucester-Provincetown race, put in at Portland, Me., in the yacht Black Arrow. Said Son James: "I don't know what there was to be upset over. The Black Arrow is as sound as a church. We just had a little blow and we hove...
Last week another boat hove into New York and another D'Oyly Carte shared a 55-year-old apprehension. Unlike his father, however, Rupert D'Oyly Carte remained in London, while the 54 members of the venerable D'Oyly Carte Opera Company made their first appearance in Manhattan. By the divine right of apostolic succession, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is to Gilbert & Sullivan what Comedie Franchise is to Moliere, what Bayreuth is to Wagner, what the Moscow Art Theatre is to Chekov, what the Abbey Theatre is to Synge. But any number of things could turn the Savoyards...