Word: disembarked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a baby carried down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year-old Margaret Hayworth, whose head was crushed in the explosion, waiting at the pier for his wife to disembark. Mrs. Hayworth met him, and sobbed, "Dear God, John, she's gone...
...other U-boat captains may have been issued by Berlin was aroused by the contrasting conduct of a captain who, last week, sank the British sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles southwest of Bantry, Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo, he stood by her survivors for nine hours until help neared (U. S. liner Washington). To attract...
...done before, during, and after the game by the University Band. Two trolley-cars full of Cambridge musicians blared Harvard music at sullen New Haven gamins on the way to the Bowl, and all the way back one liquified saxophonist emitted a continuous version of Harvardiana, forgetting, however, to disembark until North Haven...
...capitalize on her misbehavior by appearing as a show girl at New York's French Casino cabaret. When the Normandie, on which she had saved part of her first-class expense money by traveling tourist, docked in New York, immigration officials refused to let her disembark. Next day, Magda de Fontanges was whisked to Ellis Island where, in an interview with ship news reporters she declared, "My only interest is to obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that...
...Cardinal' Dougherty from taking part in the conclave which elected Pope Pius XI after the death of Benedict XV. Last month, honored though he was as the first U. S. Prince of the Church ever sent as Legate to an international Catholic gathering, Cardinal Dougherty stood ready to disembark at any port, fly back to Rome, delegating his Legate's powers as he had made sure he was canonically allowed to. But that proved unnecessary; the Pope lived...