Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come five seconds or five minutes sooner, Death would have cut short an extraordinary career. Daredevil Ridge, 28, has long been willing to risk Death for Science. Three years ago he appeared at a Boston airport, said he wanted to photograph a hotel, hired a cabin plane. In mid-flight the pilot looked back, saw that Ridge had put on a parachute, was ready to jump. He flipped the plane into a wingover that sent the would-be jumper sprawling to the floor, kept him there by repeated wingovers until he got back to port...
Spitfire (RKO), completed before Katharine Hepburn left Hollywood for her Manhattan stage appearance in The Lake, is an unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls...
Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...
Returning to a cabin by the Shannon, she lost herself in reading for two years and began conributing to various London journals. A spill while fox hunting gave her a limp for life and, when she finally drifted to Hollywood, narrowed the scope of her acting roles. Detemined to win literary fame, she fied to a mountain cabin near Santa Barbara, carrying four hundred volumes annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore...
...four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin on the canebrake to a night club in Paradise with Gabriel performing on a saxophone. Like other recent Warner Brothers productions. Wonder Bar contains more than its quota of obscenity...