Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seaman Kramer was put in irons. Cynthia Alberta Pool was put ashore at Mayport, Fla. She said she would have jumped overboard if she had known her father would hear about it. They locked her up in a boarding house until the father came. Meantime, Commander Cobb sent a radio to Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, commanding the destroyer force of the Scouting Fleet. Commander Clark and his ships had just left New Orleans, bound for Atlantic Coast ports...
...Hongkong, a Fairy 3-F seaplane with three Royal Air Force officers aboard became unmanageable in the air directly above the aircraft carrier H. M. S. Hermes. Plunging down like a plummet it tore a hole in the Hermes' flying deck, burst into flames and then rolled overboard into the sea. By smart work with a boat-hook the dead body of Flying Officer A. W. Hale was recovered before it sank; but divers had to go down after what remained of Air Lieutenant J. H. Graham and Telegraphist Stanley Jackson...
...After they had been up a while, the instructor unhooked his control stick, showed it to the student, and threw it overboard with a great flourish and a malicious grin...
...Ellsworth [U. S. backer of the expedition] and I had each, of course, brought a flag to be dropped overboard as we crossed the pole? Ellsworth the Stars and Stripes and I the national flag of Norway. In keeping with Nobile's injunctions to keep down the weight of all baggage, we had each brought a little flag not much larger than a pocket handkerchief. . . . Imagine our astonishment to see Nobile dropping overside not one, but armfuls of flags. For a few moments the Norge looked like a circus wagon of the skies. ... I was amused at his childish pleasure...
...best chapters tell of the author's early barnstorming adventures. Over Billings, Mont., with a pilot named Lynch, he attempted to draw a crowd by doing some wing-walking, throwing overboard a dummy, go that spectators would think Wing-Walker Lindbergh had fallen to his death. "We returned to our field and waited expectantly for the curious ones to come 'rushing out for information, but two hours later, when a few Montanans did arrive, they told us about one of the other attractions?a fellow who dived from an airplane into the Yellowstone River which was about three feet deep...