Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio River off Huntington, W. Va., Wharf master 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...
...falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector. is a painfully uninspired bit of hackwork. That the picture, nonetheless, manages to be an intermittently lively and entertaining period piece is due partly to Howard Hawks's skillful direction, partly to a fine characterization of a frowsy wharf-rat by Producer Goldwyn's latest discovery. Walter Brennan. Good shot: Edward G. Robinson incredulously examining the corpse of his henchman (Brian Dunlevy), hanged by the Vigilantes...
...those prepared to leave a half-hour earlier, an Eastern Steamship liner leaves India Wharf at 5.30 o'clock, on which a special roundtrip fare is also available. John R. Shobe, who has instructed many undergraduates, will personally fly a six-passenger plane to West Point Saturday morning. Lastly, there is frequent low-price bus service, the more or less open road for those driving themselves, and hitchhiking for those with good thumbs...
Sober French trade union leaders and the property-hugging French proletariat were at their wits' end last week as obstreperous Communists and wharf scum at the naval ports of Brest and Toulon staged a bloody dress-rehearsal of revolution...
...their false-front buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look, he started North toward Manhattan and his Connecticut home...