Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week he went by tender to the cruiser Philadelphia, which with other visiting ships was open to the public. He strutted the deck, confidently introduced himself to a real lieutenant, promptly met more naval officers than even he had dreamed of. The real lieutenant noted the bogus buttons, the stripes a little too high on his sleeve, a real Rear Admiral and a real Commander decided he was no spy, whisked him off the ship, plopped him into a city jail. Next day, instead of sending John Husted to jail for impersonating an officer, they condemned...
...ships compared with the Nelson and the Rodney, most modern British battleships. The Prince of Wales and King George V are of an improved Nelson class, carry ten 14-inch and 16 5¼-inch guns, with a 14-inch armor belt and a 6¾-inch deck for protection against bombs and plunging fire. The Nelson and Rodney carry nine 16-inch guns, are the only ships in the Royal Navy carrying guns that size. But since 14-inch guns have been improved, power of fire of the new ships is almost the same as the old, and number...
...years ago Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an uninhibited 16-year-old lummox of a girl singing and doing the Charleston in Washington, D. C. amateur shows. Broadway Showman Eddie Dowling brought her to Manhattan as "Tiny Little" in Honeymoon Lane. During more than four years of Broadway (Hit the Deck, Flying High), the comics of the show business treated her to so many cruel fat-lady gags that finally, bitter and hurt, she packed and went home...
...Friday and Saturday respectively in Providence. On the following Friday, they tangle with the Holy Cross linksters at another neutral battleground--New Haven. The next day Yale and William will oppose the Crimson in a double bill in the morning and afternoon. Next, the boys will be on deck for the New England Intercollegiates at Oakley Country Club...
...South African coast, brought up in its net two tons of redfish, kobs and sharks. Among them was a five-foot, 127-lb. fish which had handsome steel-blue scales, dark blue eyes and fins that were trying to be legs. It lived for three hours on deck, taking a bite at the captain's hand. The captain was no scientist but he knew fish, and he had never seen anything like this...