Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wharf Angel," companion film, comes through with nothing more than a few good camera shots, a story which makes the theatre-goer hope that the end will not be the way that he is almost certain it is going to be, and a not unpleasant way of growing an hour older
...yellow-haired little girl with her milk teeth missing stood on the Button Lumber Co.'s wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before...
...melodramas, the role she would like in real life. Their marriage the alternate prosperity and poverty of a gambler's life, the disillusionment and the separation follow quickly. Still in love they meet on the old "Show Boat" many years after, as it lies against an old Mississippi wharf in the moonlight...
...deck, lay panting below, gasping, retching, vomiting. Captain Turner steered close to the dock at Alexandria, six miles from Washington, shouted his news as he went by. Alexandrians called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully on the horrid decks, bore away 54 of those who could not walk. Doctors & nurses gave first...
...course directly the race started and when we tried to put back, the wind shifted. This delayed us ... but we always knew where we were." One of the Curlew's crew, Attorney Benjamin Theeman, returned home by train. The others, after ramming and smashing a Newport wharf, successfully sailed the Curlew home to the Bronxonia Yacht Club...