Word: overboard
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...Bolshevist movement in Russia will not succeed, it will crumble sooner or later unless we are prepared to throw overboard all that we know of, history, of economic law and of human nature," declared Mr. Michael Karpovich, lecturer in the Harvard History Department, in a recent interview...
...ordered to buy it," said Admiral Moffatt. "The order was mandatory. I expect I shall throw the thing overboard on the boat home...
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman defended the shooting officers, taking their word that the speedboat was a "rum runner," pointing out that Downey's companion had plenty of time to throw a cargo of liquor overboard before the boat docked...
...Milwaukee. Old lake sailors described how, when a car ferry is pitched by high-running combers, the freight cars break from their clamps. On the Milwaukee were 27 loaded cars. Back and forth they must have creaked and strained, bolted and battered, gaining momentum until they catapulted thunderously overboard, capsizing the careening, helpless ferry...
...Official Spokesman, famed White House fiction, was one of the Coolidge institutions thrown overboard by President Hoover. Last week the Official Spokesman reappeared, but this time it was no fiction. When all the world was at war and Woodrow Wilson had a great deal to do, he used to send out his then good friend and trusted secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, to tell correspondents whatever it was proper for them to know. Five times so far President Hoover has cancelled conferences with pressmen. Last week, distracted by Tariff, World Court, Arms Reduction and Republican National Committee, he sent his trusted...