Word: picket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship's sides. Occasionally, a mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
...German steamer, half unloaded, decided to leave Rum Row a fortnight ago. Last week, she returned. No rummies came to her side. Two indefatigable picket boats greeted her. Surly, she departed once more...
...accordance with announcements made in March, there were assembled in the waters of the middle Atlantic, early in May, a score of revenue cutters (Customs Service), a dozen submarine chasers (borrowed from the U.S. Navy) and nearly 100 picket boats and larger vessels belonging to the U.S. Coast Guard under the command of Rear Admiral Billard. All these vessels were put at the disposal of General Lincoln C. Andrews, recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (TIME, April 13). He directed them, under the general supervision of Secretary Mellon...
...this result as the presence of the armada itself was the presence of a bolder, more ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster than the average picket boat, have simply scurried on. The Coast Guard seamen have not been shooting with intent to kill...
...next page was devoted to The Art of Technology: Ossified at Birth. Loafer pointed to the buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which catalogs call: "classical Roman laid out in the French manner." Loafer called it: "A factory attempting the Roman in a derby hat . A picket-fence palace. A hairless, scrubbed and tasteless eunuch playing dominoes. . . . The hokum of the 'pseudo classic...