Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Raymond & Whitcomb cruise ship Carinthia (chartered Cunarder) with 450 U. S. tourists aboard hove into Leningrad last week, obliging Soviet travel agents appeared, conducted them on a four-day tour (including Moscow) for which each paid $400. This figures out to a total of $180,000, but the Soviet press presently announced that the tourists actually spent $250,000. "One man from Boston," said Pravda, "paid our Government 25,000 rubles [$12,750] for a silver tea set which belonged to the Tsar." Buying began on the very landing pier in a specially erected bazaar, stocked with products...
England keeps a leonine eye on all Scandinavia. George Y's introspective sister Maud is Queen of Norway and his mother was Denmark's radiant, regal Alexandra. Last week the most powerful fighting ship on Earth, the 33,900-ton British "superdreadnought" Rodney* hove up to Iceland for a friendly game of Lion & Mouse. The mouse was the trim little Danish orlogsskibe (coast defense ship) Nils Iuel of 4,200 tons. She carried Their Majesties Christian & Alexandrine, King & Queen of Denmark & Iceland, who had come to open amid international jubilation and with Icelandic pomp the "Mother of Parliaments...
...slowest de luxe liners on the trans-Atlantic run are big, broad boats sailed by big, broad Dutchmen. Into Manhattan last week hove the S. S. Rotterdam, fresh from a $1,000,000 overhaul...
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...