Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just at dark, the night of the Captain's Dinner, all the lights went out. Passengers rushed from the plush-&-gold lounges into a cold drizzle on deck. The crew was piped to stations while excited junior officers pattered up and down staircases, gesticulating. The engines stopped. Then slowly the ship heeled over to starboard. A few passengers went down for their lifebelts...
...equals of the California engineers, but one has some doubts. The use of music throughout the film shows an imagination, an originality, and an ability to fit the music to the tempo which American films lack. The use of the camera, particularly in the opening scenes showing deck tennis, is equal to Hollywood's best, though not quite up to the standards so definitely set by the serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense, and in providing that complete ad absurdum which...
...broad-faced Oriental sea dog with quarter-deck manners and a likeable grin brought Japan's naval disarmament plan to Geneva last week. The plan as explained by its cheerful custodian, Vice-Admiral Osami Nagano, is crisp, direct, simple and quite as much a credit to its authors as other plans thus far presented at the Conference. Ticking off its points on his knobby fingers, Admiral Nagano said that Japan asks...
Eugene Dubois '33, junior grade Lieutenant in the United States Navy, was tried in a general court martial last Wednesday and convicted of "colliding with and sinking the schooner Wigglesworth while serving as officer-of-the-deck on board the U.S.S. Boylston, although previously and definitely informed that the said ship Boylston was approaching a sailing vessel...
...treating his superior officer with contempt. The charge drawn up in the official document read as follows: "In that Eugene DuBois, now a junior grade Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, while so serving on board the U.S.S. Boylston, did, on or about November 2, 1932, while officer-of-the-deck of the said ship, say in a disrespectful and contemptuous manner to one Edward Hallett Preble, then a Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, who was then and there in the execution of his office, 'You are an incompetent misfit; who told you you could command this ship?', or words to that effect...