Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once the ship has sailed, to strike-or otherwise disobey captain's "lawful orders"-is mutiny. Well within their rights then were the 18 members of the tumultuous crew of the U. S. Government-owned Algic* when they "sat down" in Baltimore on the eve of sailing, lumber-laden, to South America last July. Their supplies on the dock rotted as they lounged on deck awaiting reply to an ultimatum which read...
Over the dimpled, apple-laden hills of Yakima, Wash, some 30 years ago a sandy-haired boy with a pinched, earnest face used to peddle papers for the Yakima Daily Republic to help support his impoverished family.. Two months ago when this same boy, now a lean, tousle-haired lawyer of 39, was rumored to be in line for an important Government post, the Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the Securities & Exchange...
...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...
...funniest scenes in the current Broadway hit, Room Service, is that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
...patron saint of U. S. applemen, Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was Jonathan Chapman, was first recorded as a slim 25-year-old who in 1801 turned up in Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave...