Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning turtle while alighting on Lake Union, Washington, a seaplane piloted by Bradford Washburn '33, geographer and explorer, trapped two women in its submerged cabin late Saturday. Washburn and James Borrows, the third passenger, were thrown clear and picked up by passing craft...
After the accident, Washburn and Borrows dived repeatedly in unsuccessful attempts to release the drowning women from the cabin. Washburn said that he was not used to the new type of pontoons on the plane, and that he landed too flat...
...Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked, but continued climbing till it was 2,000 ft. up. Suddenly it faltered, nosedived, crashed...
...Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when...
...prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While she was tied up in Manhattan last week a fresh fire broke out at 3:15 a. m., a few hours before her return-trip sailing. It smoldered for three hours, did an estimated $10,000 damage to the cabin lounge. Aboard were 75 passengers, some of whom rushed on deck in night clothes. The line then announced that first-class passengers would have to go tourist or transfer to other vessels, and the Berengaria prepared to sail with tourist and third class passengers only...