Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perfect Day." Bright & early next morning Nominee Roosevelt arrived at the Albany Airport where a trimotored plane waited to take him and ten relatives, friends and aides to Chicago. "It's a perfect day, isn't it?" called the Governor to cheering onlookers as he was lifted into the cabin. With stops at Buffalo and Cleveland, the air voyage against stiff winds required nine hours...
Spurred by the success of Germans with the world's fastest first-class ships (TIME, Jan. 26. 1931), the French Line put on the Atlantic last week its new Champlain, fastest cabin & tourist-class liner and larger than the French Line's first-class liner France...
Since minimum fares are fixed by the Atlantic Conference on a basis of speed, not size, the Champlain's $145 minimum cabin-class fare was challenged last week, shipmen contending that because of her greater speed she will have to be placed in a special cabin-class bracket with slightly higher fare. Similarly when the German speed ships were introduced their first-class fares were forced above the "No. 1" bracket of first-class liners into an especially created "A" bracket. On her maiden voyage the Champlain averaged 19½ knots, but like the Bremen and Europa has speed...
...slogan which Blake invents; he approves when Hicks replies to reporters' questions by saying, "Yes&$151;and again, no." The main difficulty in electing Hicks is furnished by Blake's divorced wife. Bribed to do so by the opposition, she inveigles Hicks into a mountain cabin and wins his clothes at cards. Blake & associates arrive in time to prevent Candidate Hicks from being publicly shamed by this crucial buffoonery. Adapted by Courtenay Terrett and the late Joseph Jackson from an anonymous story, The Dark Horse is novel, funny. Good shot: Hicks, when he has memorized one of President...
...year round. They slaughter only the billy goats. The hides go to the U. S., the meat to the Mexican Army. Parts which the Mexican Army does not want the men grind into fine powder, sell to the Chinese for an aphrodisiac. A wealthy old man has a cabin on the island, in the hills where the goats are thickest. He gets his aphrodisiac by sniffs-each year his yacht leaves him there, takes him away refreshed...