Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best blackout: the climax, in which the last of the three extra pearls, accidentally dropped overboard from the Normandie by Actor Guitry, skitters right back into an oyster...
...management of Austrian finance under the League of Nations for years after the War, the economic crumbs which the Allies gave to Austria because they wished to avert her collapse, and in the last few years the economic favors Italy showered upon Austria-before Mussolini finally threw Schuschnigg overboard and teamed up with Hitler-all these factors have made Austria not only economically far better off than Germany but in reasonably "sound" condition from an orthodox economic viewpoint...
...ship's captain may dislike vessel, ocean and passengers was comically demonstrated by Cinemactor Walter Connolly in The Captain Hates the Sea. Last week a real captain of a real ship was heard on the subject. Near Westport, Wash., a bottled note cast overboard in mid-Pacific last July was washed ashore. It was written by Captain W. J. Fowler, then first officer of Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co.'s Golden Horn which had just been through 18 days of rough weather...
...were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there, although it was the most exposed part of the ship. So we had to order him down to save his own life...
Soon Jack Morgan decided to keep the dwindling food and water, laid in for a two-day trip, to himself. On the fourth day, Christmas Eve, thoroughly scared, Spernak and Home managed to steal up to Jack Morgan, fell him with a marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...