Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipped from the train and dressed under a box car. When I reached the American consulate I left my maps and went out to cable Mrs. Butler I was safe. . . . I learned later that they had spent two weeks dragging the bay as they felt sure I had fallen overboard. But I was restored to the Navy list and that ended that little junket...
...PURE IN HEART-Franz Werfel- Simon & Schuster ($3). Ferdinand was ship's doctor on a Mediterranean liner. He kept himself to him- self, and his assistant's curiosity, already well tickled, was further titillated when he saw Ferdinand one night drop something overboard. What Ferdinand dropped and how he came to have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid...
Near Balboa, Canal Zone, Chief Electrician Leslie W. Burnside of the motor ship Courageous jumped overboard to commit suicide, changed his mind, swam about for twelve hours before the S. S. Sabotawan picked...
...first "shakedown" run after two years in drydock being reconditioned. The cocky little destroyer Taylor served as escort. President Hoover had smooth sailing southeastward for four days. He took long naps morning and afternoon, lounged before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine, The Temple Tower). The third day out the Taylor was to be relieved by the Dupont from Guantanamo. A miniature presidential review was arranged. For nearly an hour the President, Capt. Freeman...
Died. Willard I. Grimmer, 27, quartermaster of the submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cruise under the ice across Earth's north polar cap this summer (TIME, March 23); after falling overboard as the Nautilus was entering New York harbor. W7hen Quartermaster Grimmer married one Mary Fountain three weeks ago in Philadelphia, he said: "The Nautilus has brought me luck in the last month; a chance to meet my wife and a chance to take one of the greatest trips ever planned...