Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane and, last week, it was delivered to his pilot by the Fairchild Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, Long Island.* The plane is to be used by the Register and Tribune-Capital to get news and pictures, to promote aviation in Iowa. It has an enclosed cabin of six-passenger capacity, a darkroom for development of photographs, wings that can be folded, a Wright Whirlwind motor with maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. Readers of the Register and Tribune-Capital were offered $100 in prizes to suggest a name for the plane...
This might have been an automobile show. Glib salesmen talked of beauty of line, color, luxury of appointments. Wise-appearing men and smiling women climbed into the cabin of the comfortable Fairchild ship, sat in the becurtained and be-flowered parlor of the Fokker Super-universal, peeked into the baggageroom and the lavatory boasted by the Loening Amphibian. Army and Navy officers inspected the two Corsairs done in navy blue and silver by Chance Vought. Mail pilots peeked at the streamlined Bellanca, made for speed flying. Collegians assembled about the first plane built with a rumble seat...
Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...Hoover's effort to obtain a political delegation from the Vice President's Blue Heaven let us be as indifferent as the backwoodsman who, when urged to run to his cabin where a panther was fighting his mother-in-law, retorted, 'Why should I care what happens to a panther?' [Laughter...
...gaudiest adventures, like the supplies with which a captain fills the hold of his ship before a long voyage, are carefully inserted by Author Powys. He tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which...