Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skehen removed his short clay pipe and gazed reflectively out of the window of his little cabin under Widener gate. "Take St. Patrick's day for instance. I've seen it pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
...Ship discipline is occasionally weakened by this influx of society scions. I never heard a man swear like the bos'n who saw a fat first cabin passenger fall on the neck of one of the deck-hands. She happened to be the aunt of one of his fraternity brothers...
...fashioned in plot and jest. rude Tom's Cabin polished up and set to music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...
...tanks as far as possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists on would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening, famed aeronautical engineer, has suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit or passenger...
...disenchantment. It symbolized for him all the crassness, the barbarity of a planet which he had long despised, which he thenceforward renounced. Months later, the beautiful woman forced herself upon him where he, scornful recluse, sojourned on his yacht, spied the symbol pinned to his cabin wall, called him "baffling?but a dear" for keeping it, kissed him. He thereupon ceased to despise the planet...