Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent film British Actress Grade Fields, who makes a reputed $750,000 a year, sang "You've Got to Smile When You Say Goodby" from the top deck of a departing liner. Recently, as her father and mother sailed from Southampton on the Berengaria, Gracie standing on the dock suddenly burst into "You've Got to Smile When You Say Good-by." The astonished crowd around her, liking Gracie much more than they did the proprieties, clamored for an encore. Gracie obliged: "Little Old Lady," for her mother...
...last week sailed empty back to England on what may be her last Atlantic crossing-branded a fire hazard by the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Once last year the Berengaria caught fire during an overhaul. In Southampton last month flames blazed for two hours below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While she was tied up in Manhattan last week a fresh fire broke out at 3:15 a. m., a few hours before her return-trip sailing...
Last week U. S. card players realized they might have to deal with a green suit in their waking moments. From Vienna, via London, had come a new 65-card, five-suit bridge deck,* the added 13-card suit dubbed "royals" and embossed with a green emblem patterned after Britain's Imperial Crown. Thought up one summer night last year by Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while...
...suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas of more easily filled straights, green flushes, and a new one-eyed jack for the wild games...
Mauretania, So well ahead were the plans of Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipbuilders last week that rivets were going into plates on the top decks of Great Britain's new 33,000-ton Cunarder, largest liner ever built in England,* and costing an estimated $10,000,000. Launching is scheduled for July. Nearly 3,000 tons bigger than her famed predecessor of the same name-scrapped two years ago-the new ten-deck Mauretania is 750 ft. long and, with a speed of 22 knots from her steam turbines, will cross the Atlantic in six days. Carrying...