Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gold Diggers. Some months ago David Belasco jumped overboard from the bridge from which he directs legitimate theatrical enterprise and landed with a huge splash in the midst of the celluloid ocean. He presented?for a considerable consideration?the rights to several of his plays to certain movie impresarios. He stipulated that in their metamorphosis his traditions should be respected rather than those of the gelatine industry. For these things the population is indebted to Mr. Belasco. The Gold Diggers appears much as it appeared on the stage and evolves into that rarest of movie aves?a good, high comedy...
...navy on the American plan. Yet Yale and Harvard stuck to Guy Nickalls, Heber Howe, their various associates, and the styles of the English Thames. Last year Yale went a thousand miles in the opposite direction and summoned Ed Leader, coach from the State of Washington. Leader promptly threw overboard British theories, stroke, rigging. He developed an eight which defeated Pennsylvania, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard. Rowing veterans declared his varsity crew, which Harvard trailed by seven lengths, was one of the great eights of 56 years of racing on the New London Thames. His Freshman and Junior varsity crews...
Foreign ships already in port were not required to throw their liquor overboard-instead it was securely sealed. This happened to the Cedric and the Carmania. In the port of New York crews of vessels belonging to countries which legally require liquor rations for their seamen, continued to receive their liquor. New York Prohibition Director Canfield announced that he had received a telegram from Commissioner Haynes that the United States Public Health Service would issue medicinal liquor permits to such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington...
...West Indies. The testimony was confused but there were apparently at least three occasions on which the Black Star ship was believed to be sinking. On one occasion there was an explosion and everybody "ran around in circles " until the engineer threatened to throw some of the passengers overboard. The next morning the passengers were awakened by the cry: "My God! Somebody's opened the sea cock." All hands were ordered to the pumps to save the ship...
...explanation is still somewhat incomplete. Man may crave excitement: but it is curiosity that really killed the cat. The Greek philosopher who jumped overboard into the Aegean in order to test Plato's theories on the immortality of the soul, was merely the first fool of his kind. A modern husband who killed himself in order to see whether his wife had gone to heaven or not suffered from the same infirmity of mind. Critics of journalistic sensationalism should be more tolerant: instead of an incitement to crime, the green and pink and yellow sheets are simply a relief...