Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stops in 13 hours, from New York to New Orleans non-stop in less than five. For safety, it will be able to take off on three engines, fly on two. Inside, it will be as luxurious as the China Clipper, which is not quite so big. The passenger cabin will be 40 ft. long, 10 ft. wide, with a double row of seats on each side, convertible at night into compartments bigger than Pullman berths...
...mother, known to Leadville as "a rather refined lady" because she changed the name of one of her husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember the two-room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant...
...Ohio River off Huntington, W. Va., Wharf master George McClaskey's wharfboat was jammed in drift ice so dangerous that rivermen refused to work on it to free the boat. A drunkard reeled and staggered safely across it, knocked on McClaskey's cabin to ask him to call a cab. McClaskey rowed him back to shore...
...Columbia and move down on the campus. Every Saturday night since then I have heard the last passing Sweet Adeline never earlier than 3 o'clock in the morning. Last week I bought five acres of land on the Lake of the Ozarks. I am building a cabin there and, when it is completed, Mrs. Middlebush and I will spend our weekends down there to be at least 100 miles from the nearest Sweet Adeline...
...course of these activities, Cinemactress Riefenstahl delighted Berlin gossips by spending six unchaperoned weeks in a Mont Blanc cabin with eight male members of her cast whom she astonished by her skill with skis. In 1934 she met Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He perceived in her a personification of those qualities of health, energy, ambition, good-looks, youth and love of sport which are the German equivalent of female glamour, promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress...