Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the New York Telegram reprinted the photographs of Dr. Eckener on the triumphal tugboat, as a Telegram advertisement. What the Hearst editors had evidently not noticed, what the Telegram had either managed or discovered with journalistic glee, was that Dr. Eckener soon after his return to Lakehurst ("Lake-hearst"), had clenched in his hand a Manhattan newspaper, the name of which was clearly distinguishable in the photographs. Cried the Telegram advertisement: "Note Dr. Eckener's newspaper?The New York Telegram...
Pilot Drew flew the Fokker back to Croyden, where it was temporarily held, by order of the British Air Ministry. Pilot Drew went out on the tugboat Lady Brassy and peered at mocking Channel wavelets. Pilot Drew left the Lady Brassy and entrained for Brussels...
...year ago, Gertrude Ederle arrived at Cape Griz Nez, France, began to eat many an egg, many a steak. Later, as everyone knows, she swam the English Channel while the band on her tugboat played Barney Google...
Before dawn in Elsinore, Denmark, where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
Slowly the tug drew ahead of the air liner, for a great wind was blowing from England at almost 90 miles per hour. The plane was speeding like an arrow through the wind and yet was standing still while the tugboat crept forward. At a touch of the pilot's controls the air liner soared up to quiet air, sped on toward London, left the tug behind...