Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Algic went on to Victoria, Brazil, without them. Denied shore-leave, four more men went over the side in the darkness, attempted to row to shore in a clumsy native dugout, capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three-man board swiftly passed the case...
Prompt to support its members, the National Maritime Union gave the crew's story, charged that Captain Gainard had spun a yarn to the .Washington Post's staff correspondent, Edward T. Folliard, who had a frontpage, five-column scoop on the Algic's, horrific trip. Alleging that Correspondent Folliard was inspired by the Maritime Commission, the N. M. U. statement said: "The crew, organized 100% in the N. M. U. conducted itself in the disciplined and orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down...
...urbane Warriners are on the verge of divorce because Jerry (Gary Grant) suspects that Lucy (Irene Dunne) has been carrying on with her music teacher and because Jerry came back from an alleged trip to Florida with a basket of California oranges. The decree, to become final in 90 days, grants Lucy custody of shaggy Mr. Smith (Asta of The Thin Man), allows Jerry occasional visits with...
Interviewed early last night as he was preparing to retire for some premarathon rest, Buder, a CRIMSON editor, seemed supremely confident that he would successfully negotate the 800 miles inside of 38 hours. He will make the trip on an English-type wheel with gear-shift and hand-brakes...
...getting a little sluggish the financial end of it is merely a minor inducement." He went on to say that the major inducement for him in his love of bicycling. Buder has already gained attention by his 95 mile ride to Smith College last year. Concerning this trip he commented. "It took a pretty long day to get there...