Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry Richman (Reichman), Manhattan nightclub host and Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames...
King Prajadhipok and Queen Ram-baibarni of Siam took a 7-hr, cruise in the dirigible Los Angeles over New York City, Long Island and the New Jersey coast, napped a while in the commander's cabin. In the party were a Siamese lady-in-waiting and Mrs. William B. Sayles, wife of a Brooklyn Navy Yard captain. The ladies were the first ever to ride in the Los Angeles. Next day the Siamese court left the U. S. for Canada...
...dozen scientists, some in their underwear, some in trousers, all in acute discomfort, at about the cabin of the Graf Zeppelin as she ambled one day last week from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, first stop on her 1931 Arctic cruise. To minimize the load, each man's baggage had been limited to the heavy fur & woolen clothing required in the Far North...
...From the church came a volley of fire. Deputies on the outside volleyed back. The Negroes inside the church went scampering away to cover through the night. Four of them were left behind wounded. The deputies burned the church to the ground. Later a posse sought Gray in his cabin. When they were met with a fusillade, they broke in, shot Gray dead. Next day 200 white men scoured the county with bloodhounds, rounded up 60 thoroughly terrified Negroes who had been at the meeting, jailed 32 on charges of attempted murder and assault, criminal conspiracy, and carrying concealed weapons...
...into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight line. They were confident, because only...