Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently the shipboard newsheet reveals to the lens-grinder that his savings are lost in the failure whose consequences the banker is trying to escape. When the banker is shot in his cabin, the bearded lens-grinder goes to the brig. Robin Hood gets him out, not without severe inconvenience to himself. These and subsidiary developments, neatly compacted, gain force from high-paced direction, employment of frequent opportunities for smart photography. Good shots: a gunfight along the seamy rails and ladders of the engine room; a corridor sign flashing "SILENCE" outside the room in which the banker has been shot...
Eddie Dowling had already toured the world as a choir boy when, at 19, he married Ray Dooley, then 14. He became a cabin-boy, newshawk, music-hall singer, customer's man, drama student at Columbia, musicomedy actor. Although he has dropped his last name, he is proud of the supposition that he had pedagogical progenitors, of the fact that his great-grandfather and two great-granduncles founded Goucher College (for women) in Baltimore. Fond of corned-beef, cabbage, good beer and other Irish luxuries, Funnyman Dowling says he would like to be an official in an orphanage...
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City...
...make room for the scientists, their bulky equipment and stores, the Graf's normal crew was reduced from 41 to 30 and the cabin radically remodeled. The ship's outward appearance, too, was altered by the addition of a large rubber pontoon bottom to the gondola, for sealanding...
...Food companies held up well. General Foods (Postum, Log Cabin Syrup, Cheek-Neal Coffee, Frosted Foods etc.) showed $10,167,000 against $10,629,000. Beech-Nut Packing (bacon, chewing gum, also a hotel in Rochester, N. Y.) reported $1,172,000 against $1,320,000. Hershey Chocolate's $4,718,000 stood against $4,253,000. During the June quarter William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed a sensational gain from $2,365,000 to $3,057,000. International Salt's first six months' $399,000 compared with last year...