Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago, when about to sail for Russia, I found in my cabin on the Olympic a letter from a friend asking that I place a wreath on the tomb of Paxton Hibben...
...Louisiana judge, a juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed...
...room log cabin near Senath, Mo., a white sharecropper named Jim Bridges sat waiting for his 35-year-old wife to bear their sixth child one gloomy afternoon last week. He hoped this one would not die as four of the others had. Old Dr. Fred Speidel and three neighbor women had come over to help Pearl Bridges through her time...
...Hospital at Durham, and quadruplets (living) to a Madame Yves Le Louarer in Brittany, France. Because no one has any rule for telling where the multiple-birth lightning will strike, only large urban communities are medically prepared for it. No one expected a prodigious childbirth in the Bridges log cabin last week. When it did occur, Dr. Speidel, who delivered a dead set of quadruplets 30 years ago, imperturbably anointed the four Bridges children with hog lard, wrapped them in towels and rags. He told the wide-eyed neighbor women to give the babies, who weighed only...