Word: docks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quite a bit different from last summer," said Bert Haines the other day as he stood at the top of the Weld Bost Club dock-runway. There was one oarsman shoving off in a wherry, a couple more running themselves against the wall of the Boat Club, a few swimming off the end of the dock...
About an hour before sailing time, Lord Inverchapel, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., buttonholed a Queen Elizabeth steward. Hadn't his case of butter come aboard yet? His Excellency dashed back onto the dock, scurried three blocks to a grocery, came back lugging ten pounds of butter and eight of bacon-for friends at home, he explained...
Dorothy Kirsten, Met soprano, was left on the dock. She had come down, bag & handsome baggage, hoping to pick up a canceled reservation, but couldn't. "I feel . . . jilted," she pouted, adjusting her mink stole. Her pressagent said a pitiless reporter pried open one of her fortnighters to see if there was really something inside. There really was, the pressagent reported...
...night before his ship sailed, posters appeared on city walls summoning Porteños to a farewell to "a great friend of all Argentines." They responded. Next day at the dock, a band alternately played the Argentine national anthem and the Star-Spangled Banner. President Perón, his Cabinet, and the diplomatic corps arrived and were ushered aboard...
McFeely put down uprisings with a ruthless hand. His political control penetrated everywhere. City employees were terrorized. Dock workers were compelled to vote the right way or risk the wrath of A.F.L. union bosses. McFeely had few worries about outside political interference -though he despised Hudson County's notorious Boss Frank Hague, he maintained a working alliance with...