Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked by a Swiss photographer to look up from his play on the shore of an Alpine pond, Siam's canny King Ananda Mahid01,11, demanded...
...George McClaskey's wharfboat was jammed in drift ice so dangerous that rivermen refused to work on it to free the boat. A drunkard reeled and staggered safely across it, knocked on McClaskey's cabin to ask him to call a cab. McClaskey rowed him back to shore...
Down from the hill rushed the pretty little child, America; -- confidently, naively--toward the bottom of the valley where the stream of Permanent Neutrality flowed along an uncertain course. Along its shore stood the chilled, dripping figures of little European boys, gazing wistfully across. The American child had never tried the stream, but he was sturdy, surely he could jump it at one bound. The poor little foreigners, he was certain, were not strong enough to try; just sissies, always cheating when they played "Cops and Robbers". Brightly he ran up to the bank, jeering at the other despondent children...
Convicted of criminal negligence were The New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., operator of the Ward liner; Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, the shore official in charge of safeguarding the Morro Castle; Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, the two chief officers of the ship which took 124 lives...
...18th Century it was roughly true that Britannia ruled the waves, but the Britons who made that rule possible were in truth not much better than slaves. Shanghaied by a pressgang, crammed into noisome quarters, half-starved on verminous victuals, paid a pittance, rarely allowed shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could...