Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark night 26 miles off New York and the 63 ton motorship Shawnee, bound from Bermuda to Halifax in ballast, plowed through the seas. The Canadian ensign flew at her masthead; all lights were showing. Suddenly out of the darkness streaked a little U. S. Coast Guard boat. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang -deafeningly five 4-lb. shells were fired, the last from within ten yards of the Shawnee's rail. One shell entered the port side astern, grazed the exhaust pipe and passed out to starboard just above the water line. If the exhaust pipe had been...
Same Judge. Except for two new names on the masthead, the current number of Judge could hardly be distinguished from any of its predecessors. The new names were those of Jack Shuttleworth, editor, and Phil Rosa, art editor. Between them they shared the job abandoned by Anthony...
...story is familiar enough in the financial district of New York, where the memory of Wyckoff hovers ghostlike in many an office corner, and the name of Cecelia G. Wyckoff is flaunted fortnightly at the masthead of the Magazine of Wall Street. The chapters of it fall into the following sequence...
Panorama says, in its masthead, that it is "founded on a belief in the United States of America, its flag and its institutions." But, also, Panorama admits a desire to emulate The Illustrated London News and similar European publications. It was difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping...
This and more is the masthead of the Overland Mail, daily tabloid, born last fortnight on the Gold Coast Limited of the Union Pacific Railroad, somewhere between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. The idea: to entertain patrons of the train, to tell them yarns about the scenery and the towns through which they pass...