Word: aboards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fog?Mystery melodrama aboard ship...
There not long before, hordes of wiry, brown-skinned Filipinos clambered aboard six locomotives lying idle on the tracks, ran them defiantly out of sight and hearing...
...When the new War Lord of Shanghai, Chang Tsung-chang (see above) began to pour his troops into the city last week, the British landed 5,000 troops and encamped them two miles West of Shanghai ready for any emergency. Eleven thousand more British troops were aboard ships in the harbor, as were 3,000 U. S. marines and 600 Japanese troops...
...smacking maidens on their fulsome, laughing lips. Public feasts. Electric bulbs. Bacchanalia Motorcycle policemen. Passenger agents. Twelfth Night Revelers. Heebie-Jeebies. Comus, Momus, Mystics. Proteus. More floats. Bourbon Street bounders. Swirling crowds tumbling over one another like waves as they surge through the streets, seeking favors from the nobility aboard the floats. Torches. Band music. "No Parking Along Parade Route." Revelry. Bootleggers. Streaming champagne bottles. Girls. Fat Tuesday. The mystery of night in New Orleans. Dancing, dancing, dancing. Fat Tuesday...
...Angeles, Yokohama, Shanghai, Siam, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice; how its members had studied manfully between excursions and receptions on shore; how its full-size college faculty had imparted learning, not only by lectures but by object and project lessons in the countries visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited by a onetime Governor of Kansas, Henry J. Allen, (TIME, Sept. 27). There was something pedagogically idyllic about the scene of 500 world-circling U. S. scholars kneeling and being blessed in the Vatican; bowing and being scrutinized and handshaken, later, by swart Benito Mussolini. After jotting down their...