Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America took off on a Saturday morning, amid intense public excitement. She chugged out to sea, sent four wireless messages (the first from aircraft) including one reporting that the kitten had jumped overboard and was rescued by a rope. A shifting wind drove the ship off her northeast course. The equilibrator bounced from wave to wave, threatened to wreck the ship. Early Tuesday morning, after traveling 1,008 mi., the America sighted a steamer which came alongside, took Capt. Wellman, crew & kitten aboard. The America vanished into the skies...
...ships at sea, to police at every port, the French Secret Service flashed descriptions of the Founder-Swindler, asking his arrest. The Dutch steamer Alpherat promptly radioed that a passenger who seemed to fit the description had jumped overboard with a life buoy the evening before, eight miles from the Island of Teneriffe. Shrugged seasoned French operatives, "It has always been like that. Alexandre always escapes...
...claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race in the Keystone in the course of which LeRoy falls overboard in a washtub and Fields stokes the boilers with boxes of roman candles. Part parody of Tugboat Annie, part pure farce, Tillie and Gus is one of the pleasanter chapters in the long and happy career of W. C. Fields's famed unlighted cigar. Baby LeRoy, now 19 months...
...Japanese navy. For several days the Emperor himself commanded the defense forces. What the results of the maneuvers were Japanese referees would not say. They admitted that five men were killed, six injured and one seaplane lost. Pressed for details they would say only that several men were washed overboard by big waves...
...After getting altitude he opened a hydrogen valve, to hover in the skies with his lady. Then occurred the same mishap as befell Commander Settle and his stratosphere balloon over Chicago last fortnight. The valve refused to close again, down came the balloon. Aeronaut Harris dumped all ballast, threw overboard his own clothing and even his fiancee's. Still the balloon plunged downward. Grimly Harris kissed his companion goodbye, then jumped to his death, lightening the basket enough to save her life...