Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames which burned him severely, seized Miss Walsh, jumped overboard. Miss Biddle, who was pushed with Miss Glad through the front hatch by Richman's chauffeur, was burned badly about the legs and ankles. As a commandeered car rushed Miss Walsh to the hospital, she wailed: "I don't care where I'm burned so long...
Only one of them survived the voyage. The first, dressed up and put ashore, was frightened to death by a gorilla. The second, having developed a taste for drink, got drunk and jumped overboard. The third, marooned among strange savages, was married by them to their god. The fourth drowned herself. As colonizing cat's-paws the Negresses were a failure...
...noisy business of sending hare-brained Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley to the electric chair (TIME, June 15). Soon after Starr Faithfull's body was found, the district attorney announced she had been killed by two men. one prominent in politics, her body taken out in a boat and thrown overboard. Next day he declared that the girl was knocked unconscious aboard a boat, then thrown into the water. By then the prominent politician had been "practically eliminated." Ultimately Prosecutor Edwards was weighing suicide against the murder theory...
Arizonans, like the 100 Colonial patriots who dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw the tea overboard in Boston Harbor, are not angry but terribly in earnest...
...abroad by U. S. talkies). The European impulse was to call Mr. McKelvie a hypocrite when he said that under Federal Farm Board aegis the 275 million surplus bushels of U. S. wheat "will be sold, but they will be merchandised in orderly fashion; they will not be thrown overboard for anything they will bring, to demoralize domestic and foreign markets...