Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night of the farewell cruise dinner, Capt. Willmott was not there to play host. Day before, complaining of a stomach ache, he had retired to his cabin. In the dining saloon paper hats bobbed merrily, poppers crackled amid the small extravagances of last-night wine. But Capt. Willmott lay dead, half in, half out of his cabin bath tub, dead, said the ship's doctor, of "acute indigestion and heart attack...
Without rhyme or reason the whole midships suddenly seemed to sprout fire. In his cabin on the hurricane deck, First Assistant Radio Officer George I. Alagna was awakened by a heavy trampling of feet. He noticed that it was 2:56 in the morning. Alagna heard someone scream: "We can't control the fire! The pressure's gone!" Then he awakened his chief, pudgy George W. Rogers, who went to the wireless room and took over from the second assistant. The room went dark as the ship's electric power failed. With a flashlight the radio men turned...
...dawn the blazing Morro Castle was surrounded by rescue ships, the great three-funnelled Monarch of Bermuda, the coastwise steamer City of Savannah and the freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates. Some cursed and raved. In his own little private hell, one man seemed to smile and wave his hand in farewell...
Next day the indefatigable rainmaker went up again, accompanied by Pilot Lou Foote, a newsreel photographer, a Dallas night-club entertainer. A bomb dropped from 15,000 ft. exploded prematurely, set off three other bombs inside the plane. With one side of the cabin blown out and flames eating their way through the cockpit, able Pilot Foote sideslipped coolly into a cotton field, saved himself and passengers. But next day pneumonia, brought on by burns, took James A. Boze...
...gallops off with her clothes. The lover appears to help her catch her runaway beast. Naked as Eve, Eva thanks the young man for her horse and clothes, is about to depart when she trips and suffers a slight accident which causes both to spend the night in a cabin. In the cabin scenes Czechoslovak Director de Machaty confines himself almost exclusively to close-ups of Eva's face which Paris critics called "extremely audacious." Later the husband commits suicide...