Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletin from her builders the Normandie was said to be "now wearing her flannels." Explained these petticoat-minded Frenchmen: "Especially fire-proofed flannel has been found to be the best sound-deadening material with which to insulate each cabin of the superliner between its double walls...
...practice over that in Jamestown (pop. 45,155) would not permit same gracious enjoyment of unostentatious luxuries-would have to live in city or commute, and he hates both; might be expected to work Saturdays, and reserves Saturdays for domestic pleasures; several times the income that keeps a comfortable cabin cruiser on Lake Chautauqua wouldn't maintain a yacht on the Hudson; stable of fine saddle horses can be kept almost adjoining spacious colonial home in Jamestown, but not so in New York City...
...publicizing Erskine Caldwell's crackpot version of conditions in the Empire State of the South. Yanks! He gets paid to write that tomfoolery and the paragraph about the two children playing Romulus and Remus to a "dry-teated" hound is tops in the Uncle Tom's Cabin type of journalism...
...with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas is a skin-stressed airplane, the windows had to be replaced with duralumin sheeting. Conspicuous atop the cabin was a big loop aerial...
...troupe went rolling year after year from one successful engagement to another, The Green Pastures grew into an enormous legend which somehow suggested the vogue of Uncle Tom's Cabin half a century ago. It played in churches, colleges, prisons, clubs, fraternal lodges as well as on legitimate stages. Biggest house played was the Shriners Auditorium (4,000 seats) in Des Moines in 1932, where also the biggest day's receipts ($11,000) were taken in. Smallest day's business ($600) was at Big Spring, Tex. Smallest theatre encountered (900 seats) was in La Crosse...