Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Varsity skiing squad have been working on the construction of a mountain cabin on the slopes of Mount Washington over the past weekend. The chalet while owned by the Mountaineering Club, will be used during the winter to accommodate Varsity and Freshman skiers, as guests of the club, during weekends of practice...
Last week, when the enormous helium-filled alligator, pig, drum-major, etc., etc., were drifting foolishly over Manhattan and Long Island, a student flyer named Annette Gibson, 22, carrying Instructor Hugh Copeland as passenger, steered her cabin monoplane for a near view. Presently she found herself face to face with a 60-ft. striped tomcat. Yielding to impulse, Miss Gibson plowed into the bag. The punctured fabric wrapped itself about the wing, put the plane into a spin. Miss Gibson cut off the ignition, saw the rooftops of Queens gyrating toward her. Then Instructor Copeland seized her shoulder, yelled...
Miss Gibson climbed over the back of the pilot's seat while the instructor eased down into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...
...trip is Copenhagen, where Mrs. Trotsky is to undergo medical treatment and Comrade Trotsky, still leader of anti-Stalin Communists, is to deliver a lecture at the University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens pro-Trotsky Socialists who came to cheer, pro-Stalin Communists who came to boo, were both kept from the pier. Mrs Lubinsky went ashore in Athens, not tc inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit...
Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...