Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton's Triangle Prom will take place Friday night amid a nautical setting. The "Princetonian" warns would-be crashers that two bouncers, dressed in the guise of ship's officers, "will be on deck to greet all passengers coming aboard. While one salt will be stationed at the head of the gangplank to inspect the passports of the embarking prom-goers, his cohort will haunt the bowels of the vessel to thwart the advent of stowaways. Anyone apprehended without proper credentials will promptly be compelled to walk the plank, with an additional charge of twelve dollars." . . . Washington U's Varsity...
...Channel steamer going over to France last week Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax had a thoroughgoing tossing about. On deck Mr. Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency...
Marooned on the deck of the wallowing ship, the crew ran up distress signals* on main-truck and foremast, slung the Stars and Stripes upside-down from the shrouds. Captain Milton dived into the flooded cabin, brought up a case of whiskey, some canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...
Aboard the Deutschland the 591 passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...
Sirs: . . . Item for your Travel Department: I find that the surest way to meet the Best People on any ship or cruise is to walk around the deck the first day out with a copy of TIME conspicuously displayed about one's person. Before nightfall the above-mentioned B. P. will either be at one's feet in an effort to borrow that copy, or will be at one's throat in an effort to settle an argument born of some article in TIME...