Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceeded to Castle Garden (present site of New York's aquarium), knelt in prayer. Rubberneckers observed that the women's straw hats were circled with crimson ribbons lettered in gold. Later in the week the troupe sang, prayed and sermonized between performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theatre, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery in the Bowery. Admission price was 25?. The troupers refused any share of the profits, saying that Harry Hill's money was the Devil...
...says: "One might hesitate to liken it to any modern work of the first credibility, such as Boswell's Johnson or Eckermann's Gespräche mit Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner...
Slow Glide. At Roosevelt Field last week, Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin and his Crescent cabin ship demonstrated that a skilled pilot in a reasonably stable plane can glide the plane at dangerous stalling speed to land more slowly than a man drops in a parachute...
Fairchild cabin planes were early favorites in Canada. The Canadian Department of National Defense owns 32 (to the chagrin of English companies), for forest patrol, aerial photography and survey operations. Fairchild business is so good that the company is now constructing its own plant at Longueuil, 15 minutes from the heart of Montreal. Adjacent are its eight-rayed landing field, its seaplane T-dock on the St. Lawrence...
There was no ceremony at the Prince's sailing. He went aboard as First Class Passenger Windsor and announced that he would eat with the other travelers. In his suite-a sleeping cabin, bath, living room-had been stowed his bags, and a brace of new guns. The rifles he used on his previous African trip were venerable relics, the property of his grandfather Edward...