Word: overboard
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...eager candidate for the Gillett seat in the Senate is onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller. Last week, disgusted with Committeeman Liggett's inept maneuvre, he called him a "Jonah," said he ought to be thrown "overboard...
...high seas, last week, the liner Sud Americano stopped to rescue an overboard passenger. Passenger Olaf, a cat, sank 26 times, was dragged in as he was sinking the 27th. Seaman's tradition: Anything lost on maiden voyage brings bad luck. Olaf was on Sud Americano's maiden voyage...
...flyers discovered why their tail had drooped at the take-off?the stowaway was there. They decided not to throw him overboard. To lighten the load they had dispensed with thermos bottles, victuals and other comforts. They had taken less than their full capacity of gas. Jean Assolant, married only three days to Pauline Parker, pretty Manhattan chorus girl, had refused to take her. But that hulking, selfish boy was with them. His unexpected weight prevented their reaching French soil...
...Department is dominated by the fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty...
...would make the imperialists of every country blush with shame. Descendant of Said Kafu and a long line of distinguished Negro merchants and sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more worth while...