Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woods cleared and safe, is becoming a town society. Sayward Wheeler, a hardworking, sweet-souled "woodsy," and her lawyer-husband, Portius, could now relax and enjoy life. With loping, casually connected episodes, Richter tells how the nine Wheeler children grow up, how Sayward reluctantly agrees to leave her cabin for a fancy house in Americus (new, high-sounding name for Moonshine Church), and how Portius gets to be a judge...
...aboard a regularly scheduled DC-3 which was making its approach to Atlanta, he looked out of a window and saw automobile lights so shockingly close that he felt he could touch them. A few seconds later, as he bawled at passengers to get to the rear of the cabin, the big ship smashed into a hill with a doomlike roar. When silence fell, Rickenbacker was pinned down over the body of a dead steward by the weight of wreckage...
...fare: 55 ducats For this, the pilgrims were given, as a bed, an 18-in. strip on the deck of the pilgrims' cabin, a little lower than the animals, a little higher than the bilge...
Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...able to get up to the bridge and into radio communication with newsmen on an accompanying destroyer. He made his report: the only activity aboard the Williamsburg occurred in a horrible nightmare he had had, in which oranges were rolling back & forth, back & forth on the deck of his cabin. Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan had been the sickest man, but there had been a general loss of faith in the seasickness pills offered by White House Physician Dr. Wallace Graham...