Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with planes that cruise at 175 m. p. h. and have a top speed of 230 m. p. h. The schedule, if fulfilled, would be fastest in the world (1,210 mi. in 7 hr.). The planes, to be built by Detroit Aircraft Corp., are a six-passenger cabin type of Lockheed Sirius, heretofore built only in two-place open cockpit style. They will be powered by single 575-h. p. Wright Cyclones, will be equipped with retractable landing gear...
Aged 14, Grandfather Rufus Daniel Isaacs ran away from the comfortable home of his merchant father, saw India first as a "cabin boy. After two years before the mast he tried the stock exchange, presently became reconciled with his parents, studied for the bar and in 1887 married Miss Alice Cohen...
After the War Lord Reading returned to the India of his cabin boy days as viceroy. Events obliged him to detain both the "Ali Brothers" (Mohammedans) and Mahatma Gandhi in jail, also to impose the hated salt tax against the will of the Indian Assembly, but his "judicial fairness" is remembered. In 1926 he attained the marquessate, may die a duke...
Best shot: two French cabin stewards in their pantry on a liner which resembles in many respects the famed lie de France...
...Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired enthusiasm for polo, Publisher Quigley was impelled to back Editor Peter Vischer in starting Polo magazine, which he subsequently sold to Harper & Bros. (TIME, May 19). Also he publishes the smart fortnightly Chicagoan, which not long ago "turned the corner...