Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majestic saw strange sights. She was placed on the "New York to Nowhere" route for a 26-hr, cruise. All was shipshape until 3 a. m. when the atmosphere in the bar became thoroughly drunken. Rowdies, angry at not being allowed to roll dice on the main deck, started to heave potted plants, get agitated. "Gimme two rods and I'll clean the place out" cried one voice to the horror of the stewards. The scene did not become quiet until eleven RKO girls and their social advisers came in, only to scurry to their cabins before amorous advances...
...weeks ago the Dunster crew managed to nose out their ancient rivals from Lowell, and in a second race the Eliot House boat was edged out a deck length by Winthrop...
...Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...
...board. "How do you know there are four?" asks the captain. "They are singing 'Sweet Adeline,' " says the mate. Routed from the barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes...
...When the plane touched water after being lowered from the deck of the Hermes, the four-knot current swept the plane sidewise and tipped it until one wing went under and the plane tilted to about 90°. Mrs. Lindbergh attempted by pressing a lever to inflate a collapsed rubber life belt she was wearing. The belt failed to inflate and, appearing quite unperturbed, she followed the instructions of Colonel Lindbergh and dove into the water. . . ." (Consul General Walter Adams to the U. S. State Department...