Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times are gone when his boyish posteriors used to be chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...
Worthy of special note is the bur lesque Third Cabin advertisement which is illustrated by a page of photographs of "life at sea". Much trouble was evidently taken and the photographs and their grouping are wholly in the bur lesque spirit from the shuffle board game with pie pans to the representation of Lady Montbatten ascending the grand stairway of the New Amsterdam third class port holes in the background...
...very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...
...beginning with Spanish melon. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was at the Jacksonville station, (with Mayor John T. Alsop and many a big fruitgrower. The President shook their hands, looked around, re-entrained for Washington. The Coolidge Special's cinema that evening was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...fares on ships like the Leviathan, Majestic and Maurentania would increase $7 between U. S. and Continental ports. First-class fares on the President Roosevelt, the France and ships of their class will not be changed. But for second-class passage on all ships the price mounts $5. Tourist cabin charges go up slightly...