Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amundsen. The Pope blessed them and so did the elements. Premier Mussolini bade them adieu. They stood in their linen overalls at the cabin windows and their chief ordered that the nose ropes be cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel...
Amundsen. Pomp, fanfares, Premier Mussolini, foreign military attaches and "all the Norwegians in Rome" attended the formal translation of the semirigid Italian dirigible Enone into the Norge, in its hangar at the Ciampino Airdrome at Rome. The distinguished company gathered about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft...
...dead. That great mythmaker, the public, is no respecter of persons, and least of all has it respected the person of Andrew J. Volstead, a little man of Scandinavian descent who was born in Minnesota in 1861. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who built the log cabin on the farm where Andrew was born. His mother was the daughter of a market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite...
...performances of the evening the playing of Peg Entwistle as Ellie Duan was the most interesting. When the play opened upon its strange first scene, the room like a ship's cabin in Heartbreak House, Ellie Dunn was a living character. Before the play was half over she had turned from a young and attractive girl with her own personality to a type hard and cold and self-seeking. And when the play ended she was again become a living personality. It was this transition which Illustrated most exactly the difference between Shaw's characters and his types...
...board ship the ubiquitous immigration officers questioned her. She said she was divorced. They asked "Why?" She told them. Instead of being allowed to land with the other cabin passengers, she was sans ceremony inclosed on Ellis Island. A board gave her a hearing and decided she must be deported. U. S. courts had held that adultery is a crime. She admitted what is at least equivalent to adultery. The officials opined that adultery involves moral turpitude. She appealed to Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. He granted the appeal, considered for several days, and decided he had no choice...