Word: taffrail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion by the Sun's Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint to increase space in the Sunpapers, as Baltimoreans have always called the two sheets. Mr. Black was drowned in 1930, slipping from the taffrail of his yacht Sabalo off the Jersey coast...
Resourceful Captain Macnamara had another idea. With Admiral Boyle's ap proval, wireless summoned full speed out from Portsmouth seven destroyers. Resting from their jumping, the Nelson's crew leaned over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport...
Diver Alberto: "Stop! I'm on the bottom. ... I can make out something vast. . . . It's the end of a ship's hull. ... I can see the taffrail...
...There was only one interesting moment-the comparison between Enterprise and Whrlwind on the second tack, the first pointing closer into the wind but Whirlwind showing a fuller mainsail. Enterprise had slipped away in the low breeze like a bird and, running far in the lead, hung over her taffrail in mockery her harbor sign, "Please Keep Astern." She beat Vanitie by 6 min. 29 sec.; the rest trailed in well-beaten...