Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Showers. Seamen's wages are up to ?24 a month minimum now, much more than before the war, when Labor politicians were yelling that the Queen Mary was a palace for the passengers with slave quarters for the crew. Now each seaman has a curtained bunk with a reading lamp of his own. Seamen have their own bar, plenty of shower baths and much more space than before. The big inducement, however, is the Queen Mary's food and the chance to buy in New York...
...looked after "the little things" long before the delegates arrived. Mayors without wives were paired up as roommates according to their habits (i.e., tipplers and late sleepers did not bunk with teetotalers and early risers). Banquet placecards were arranged so that French-speaking and English-speaking delegates did not sit next to one another. Arrangements were made for entertaining wives while delegates were at meetings. Jessica, who has been with the federation since it was founded in 1938, thinks the mayors are a "grand bunch"; she wanted everything to go smoothly...
Brotherhood in the Bunk. In country inns he found the sheets blackened by previous travelers, and felt that brotherhood had been carried too far in the land of liberty when strangers were admitted to bunk with any guest during the night. He deplored the absence of curtains in bedroom windows, and the abundance of flies everywhere. As a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia, he contributed his bit to the future of U.S. civilization by selling contraceptives, which were soon "in great demand among Americans, in spite of the false shame so prevalent...
...Young Man's Fancy (by Harry Thurschwell & Alfred Golden; produced by Henry Adrian) treats of a summer camp for boys & girls - and particularly of four young ruffians who share a bunk with a rich man's coddled son. In its few bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance...
Expand All Over. In four war years he earned $4 in salary working for the Government in a half-dozen top jobs. On one trip to England his ship was torpedoed off Iceland. Roused from his bunk, Taylor bobbed around the Atlantic in a lifeboat for six hours without his pants...