Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabin Boy Paul Johnson, who had just emerged from the "glory hole," was swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed...
After ten days of a nightmare voyage the President Harding steamed into New York Harbor, flag at half-mast for Cabin Boy Johnson, and while three uninjured members of the ship's band played The Sidewalks of New York, warped into her pier, where 18 ambulances waited, rushed 26 to hospitals. From her hold were removed 25 automobiles, most of them virtual wrecks, to be towed away...
Hero Prien, 31, is a onetime Hamburg-America Line cabin boy who entered the Navy in 1933, saw service in Spain. On the third, fourth and seventh days of World War II he sank the British merchantmen Bosnia, Rio Claro and Gartavon respectively. Adolf Hitler received him and his men at the Chancellery, hung on Prien the Ritter Cross (oversized Iron Cross), the highest German military decoration today. Crowds outside yelled: "Prien, the deed was wonderful!" That night the heroes were regaled at the Wintergarten (vaudeville) where Goebbels presented them each with a book of news clippings and the audience...
...place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--An Eastern Airlines pilot brought his big transport plane down safely in a freshly plowed field 20 miles east of here today while flames roared in the baggage compartment and smoke filled the cabin where seven passengers were. The passengers and a crew of three escaped uninjured...