Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broken tables and benches. (A considerable enterprise-over 300 men were employed there.) No one goes there now. We were startled the first time to find standing on a floor in a dim corner, the portrait of an old lady in a massive frame in an otherwise empty cabin-a sensitive old face just come from some secure New England village...
Just now again we have been there and went at once to seek our old lady, pensive and enduring as ever, we found her, even more shut in and solitary. Outside her cabin are the only garden flowers (everywhere a riot of wild flowers-even wild rhododendrons), against her house a clump of calla lilies and a fragrant pink cabbage rose. We took her into the sun and photographed her [see cut]. Who can name her? UNA JEFFERS...
...Italian Liner Rex scratching hives. Explained Purser Luigi Pesenti: "Each year a new supply of Russian grey caviar is taken on and there is too much indulgence. Every year at this time, in June and,July, we always have the cabin passengers suffering from hives...
...locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against the ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson...
...shrewdly planned and powerful; sometimes, particularly when Director Tay Garnett uses for comedy the same form of physical surprise which a moment earlier he was using for horror, it is inept. But the action is generally lusty and well-integrated. Best minor role: Mickey Rooney as the resolute, bewildered cabin boy whose loyalty veers hazardously between the brutal mate and the romantic skipper...