Word: stowing
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Thousands of small speculators, who have been largely responsible for the three months hubbub in Wall Street, were last week seized with the same idea. Each of them suddenly became air-minded; each of them wanted to stow away, or play with, a few shares of air stock. True enough, they had played intermittently with air stocks since the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, but never as they did last week...
...name is Chance Stow," said a Negro stowaway to a Manhattan immigration official...
...what is your name?" said the official to Chance Stow's companion, a slinking, shabbily dressed, ebony adolescent, with a scooped face, pointed ears, piggish eyes and a gold tooth...
...name is Jimmie Walker," replied the rascal, unaware, doubtless, that this name belongs to Manhattan's clever, handsome & well-dressed mayor. By no means amused at such an impertinent coincidence, the immigration official ordered Chance Stow and Jimmie Walker to hurry back to Barbados, whence they had come...
...stow away?" he was asked...