Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dodsworth (Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists). "Why don't you try stout, Mr. Dodsworth?" drawls a woman's voice from the shadowy corner of a steamship deck. Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) who has just asked the steward for a drink that will soothe his nerves, whirls around, surprised. Mr. Dodsworth's surprise was nothing to that of Producer Sam Goldwyn and his staff when, at this line, I he audience at a Hollywood preview last week burst into applause. The applauders were not partisans of stout but of Mary Astor, whose first line they recognized even before...
...Stacked Deck. Hardly had Nominee Landon placed his bet, however, when the Democratic Party stacked the deck against him. On the day he made his announcement in Topeka, agents of the U. S. Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures appeared at Republican State Committee headquarters in Augusta, demanded a list of its campaign contributors. The sole, non-partisan duty of this Senate Committee is to ferret out corruption. Day later one of its Democratic members, Washington's Schwellenbach, telephoned Democratic headquarters with news of some incorrupt but exciting discoveries...
...voyage from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific...
Captain Forde A. Todd, U. S. N., had a distinct roll to his walk as he crossed the rostrum in Sanders Theatre as though it were the quarter deck of a four master...
Early one misty Manhattan morning last week Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin boarded a Government cutter, went down New York Harbor to Quarantine. There the radiorating Detroit priest climbed into the Italian liner Rex, hurried to an upper deck where waited his bishop, grey, gnarled Michael James Gallagher...