Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year retirement in the woods. In March 1933, as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners (an unpaid commission of more than 60 years' standing, since abolished by the President on the ground of economy), I was visiting in the Osage country and called at the log cabin home of John Stink or Ha-ta-moie, whose emergence from the hills was hy no means a new story at that time...
...Nostrand, a good-humored playboy who, while trying to escape from a bench warrant in a divorce suit, encounters Millicent Kendall (Ann Sothern') trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into refuge at the same Adirondack cabin, Nostrand thinks Millicent is a summons server, she thinks he is a gangster. It takes the arrival at the cabin of a shaggy local trapper (Slim Summerville), a real gangster, a machine-gun posse led by the local sheriff (John Qualen), a blizzard and a tame rabbit to relieve their...
...history is that it includes Hollywood's first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks...
...crash reunion,* invited all concerned to the company's annual dinner in Manhattan. Six passengers showed up, as did 36 citizens of Port Jervis, including the mayor, police chief, forest ranger and county treasurer. Only one rescuer failed to appear-recluse Thomas Lyman. Found at his lonely cabin tending his only cow, he disconsolately refused because "She's a good cow and I can't leave her. She's awful sick...
...Abbey, have sold all the top-price seats they offered at $262.50 each, have plenty left at down to $94.50 each, their cheapest. Thomas Cook & Son have the stand of 4,000 seats near Hyde Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within five rninutes walk of the stand. American Express offer similar rates with emphasis on further travel on the cheaper Continent after the Coronation...