Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peculiar proof, last week, of the extreme spaciousness and luxury of the Augustus. Miss Moore occupied with a Miss Goebel one of the de luxe cabins. It had windows, not portholes. Miss Moore leaned out of her spacious window to enjoy the night breeze, leaned further, fell out and overboard...
...actually slaves aboard. That a slaver could be smelled "five miles down the wind" made camouflage the more difficult, and upon such a reeking suspect four war-vessels one day descended. Fortunately for the suspect captain, the law was becalmed long enough for him to drop his 600 slaves overboard, chained to the anchor...
Finally, let able Jumper Hoyt state why he jumped. TIME assumes him to possess a better reason than that given by one Elsie Ekengren, 17-year-old schoolgirl, who told reporters that after making his acquaintance on shipboard she girlishly cried, "I dare you to jump overboard," whereupon Jumper Hoyt jumped...
...used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...
Boss Murphy and his henchmen were aghast. Without Hearst many a job might be lost. Perhaps Smith would have to go overboard. They tried to reason with him. He stayed in his room chewing his cigars, spitting, scowling, swearing. "No, no, NO!" he roared...