Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of prospects. Most of them were old folks and clergymen who had subscribed to a series of books on dietetics written by one Eugene Christian. They liked ruddy-faced Clark W. Parker: he told them frankly that he had been born 69 years ago in a Michigan log cabin. His voice was impressive, his bearing dignified. He was a trustee of Manhattan's interdenominational Church of the Strangers. His corporation sounded good - motors and things. And all he would think of accept ing (at first) was $100 of their money...
...From St. John, N. B. to Armonk, N.Y. flew Clarence Duncan Chamberlin. Strapped to a stretcher in the cabin was his friend and pupil Ruth Nichols whose back was injured in the crash that ended her attempt of a transatlantic flight (TIME, June 29). Prior to fetching Miss Nichols, Flyer Chamberlin had taken his Crescent monoplane to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York City, hung out a sign coaxing joy-hoppers to "fly with a pilot who flew the Atlantic," promising an autograph on every ticket. Immediately Roosevelt Flying Corp. hired Roger Q. Williams, just released from "alimony" jail, made...
Preventing infection depends on personal hygiene. Because ringworm most often comes on the feet, one should not go barefoot even in one's own home, never in a carpeted hotel room, ship cabin, or train compartment. At public bathing places, wear bathing slippers. Careful club managers provide paper treaders for guests. Custodians of showers and pools should scrub the floors several times daily. Soap and hot water suffice to flood out trichophyta...
...scheduled, for Italy aboard the S.S. Conte Grande. His trip was originally intended to be a vacation but President Hoover after re- ceiving the French reply, foresaw where his Secretary of State could be more useful abroad than in his high-ceiled Washington office.* On the Conte Grande a cabin near his B deck suite had been especially fitted out as an office for the Secretary of State who took with him Captain Eugene A. Regnier, his military aide, Allen T. Klots. his special assistant, and George...
...nothing compared to the ordeal of last summer when he and Harold Bromley got i.200 mi. from Japan in an attempt flight to the U. S. and then had to fight their way back to shore with a broken exhaust ring spewing carbon mon- oxide gas into the cabin. That put him in a hospital for two months. This navigating business had been his forte since he entered the Royal Australian Naval College at 13. For many years he was a mariner, then studied aerial navigation under famed Lieut. Commander Philip Van Horn Weems U. S. N., later taught...