Word: compartmentalizer
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FarewelL At Victoria Station the King-Emperor and his Consort, who never leave London to welcome or say farewell to anyone, bade Godspeed to the Duke and Duchess as they entrained for Portsmouth. With grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half...
Stanley Baldwin, Premier of Britain: "The secret leaked out last week that recently, when I passed through Paris on my way home from Aix-les-Bains, I arrived at the French capital asleep, though the hour was 10 a. m. Rubbing startled eyes, I beheld through the window of my...
The 3,000-ton freighter City of Rome loomed over the battered and sinking hulk of the submarine. Commander Dobson cried his orders. Every man on the submarine snapped to obey. The Rome backed water. "Throw me a line!" Water streamed down the open conning tower hatch. Eight men asleep...
"I saw water spurting into the compartment from the battery room duct. I jumped out of the bunk and ran to the door and tried to shut it, but couldn't on account of the pressure of the water rushing in. The water swept me back through the compartment...
Mr. Morley ventured into the caboose and had his first-class ticket punched by "a scared-looking little conductor, whose costume started off well with a braided cap and ended rather pitifully in shabby carpet slippers." He then glimpsed "an efficient, snappy-looking officer" of Marshal Feng's army seated...