Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without rhyme or reason the whole midships suddenly seemed to sprout fire. In his cabin on the hurricane deck, First Assistant Radio Officer George I. Alagna was awakened by a heavy trampling of feet. He noticed that it was 2:56 in the morning. Alagna heard someone scream: "We can't control the fire! The pressure's gone!" Then he awakened his chief, pudgy George W. Rogers, who went to the wireless room and took over from the second assistant. The room went dark as the ship's electric power failed. With a flashlight the radio men turned...
Less brutal was the conduct of slangy Able Seaman Jerry Edgerton: "I kept thinking about that poem 'The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come...
...little steamer brought him into New York Harbor one July day in 1879, Richard D'Oyly Carte nervously paced the narrow deck with many a grave misgiving. H. M. S. Pinafore, of which he was impresario, was being widely pirated in the U. S. Without recourse to any international copyright law, he was determined to give Manhattan a production of H. M. S. Pinafore which would rout his unscrupulous competitors. Then he was to plunge into rehearsals for the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance, whose production was impeded at the start by the absentmindedness of pious Arthur Sullivan...
...half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast. At the finish, a whistle blew as each boat flashed over the line but spectators had no idea which one had crossed first. The members of the race committee, shouting through cupped hands from the deck of the committee boat, told them: "Rainbow, by one second...
...inexperienced Manhattan news photographer boarded the Berengaria at Quarantine last week and trotted about the boat deck looking for members of the D'Oyly Carte operatic stock company, making their first visit to the U. S. in many a year. He found a spectacular looking lady, now blonde, clutching a small Belgian griffon and practically studded with sparkling stones...