Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started last week is a three-month world cruise arranged by Raymond-Whitcomb aboard the Norwegian Stella Polaris. Four dozen other Americans will be in the party. The ship, as it lay moored to a Brooklyn dock last week, contained 5,000 bottles of spirits, kegs of beer piled deck high, 55,000 bottles of vintage wine...
...Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen by a camera attached to the underpart of the plane; target practice in which airplane gunners fire at three blimps with cameras mounted on their guns. The plot which ties these and similar ups-&-downs together is familiar but ingratiating...
...That's the joker in our deck. If the next Republican convention renominates Mr. Hoover it will be an utterly useless gesture and result in certain and calamitous defeat...
...nurse to a foundling whom the captain has picked up in a dory, voyage together from Central America to Manhattan. At the end of the voyage they are engaged. The foundling, an inarticulate urchin, gives a more sure-fire performance than either Cooper or Colbert. By crawling out on deck and sitting in the rain, he catches pneumonia. This indisposition resolves the difficulties which result from Cooper's discovery that his fiancee has been an inmate of a pleasure house in Cristobal. Shot: Cooper maintaining the tradition that no real man knows how to manipulate an infant, by splashing...
Another Night. Bothered by a superfluity of spectators, Ely Culbertson ordered the room cleared, announced that all the cards used?a fresh deck for each hand?would be auctioned for charity. To settle a controversy, he produced a copy of his Contract Bridge Blue Book, gave it to Mr. Jacoby, asked if Mr. Jacoby wanted it autographed. Said Mr. Jacoby: "I do not." A 15-minute argument over rules occurred when Mr. Culbertson dropped the ace of spades into his lap so that it was seen by his opponents but not by his partner...