Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrowest escape I ever had from being fired was when I got fly with a little guy who detrained from the Lake Shore Limited. During Prohibition days, 'leggers came in from Canada and other points with huge bags loaded with liquor. In order to get through O.K., they'd dress like preachers, bums, and ambassadors. A redcap in not allowed to charge a passenger for services--take the tip and shut up! is the law. But bootleggers could be hijacked for a buck or more, if you were sure...
...sure the little guy from the Lake Shore was hauling liquor; so I began to lay my racket...
Complications developed from the old Belasco play Shore Leave are of the boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl formula. The wind-up is a benefit show on board a freighter: boys-get-girls...
...member of Virginia's famed Byrd family but born on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, "Curly" Byrd played and later coached football for his university when it was plain Maryland Agricultural College. Between seasons he rose to be assistant to the president and then vice president. He has long done many of his alma mater's political chores, an experience which should prove helpful. The board of regents fired his predecessor, Raymond Allen Pearson, last July for failing to wangle larger appropriations from the State Legislature...
...Follow the Fleet" follows the flock of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dainties, which, in the past year, have delighted American lovers of song, dance, and whimsy. It musical score comes from Irving Berlin, and its plot is the product of the union of two Broadway successes, "Shore Leave" and "Hit the Deck...