Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venturesome Nova Scotian three-master Fieldwood, bound from Hawkesbury, N. S. for Barbados. Two days out the pumps broke down. Water poured in through the racked hull to disable auxiliary engine and radio. Soon the captain, his crew of six and their mascot bulldog, Yummie, were marooned on the deck of the water-logged ship...
...Atlantic crossing on S. S. Normandie; breakfast, lunch and dinner served in secret accommodations on "C" deck; an extra day's stay aboard in Manhattan to avoid U. S. customs and immigration officials. Accused of having sold this sort of stowaway passage to countless European emigrants (nine of whom were uncovered after the Normandie's December 3 sailing was prevented by a crew strike), two French Line sailors this week found themselves in a Havre jail...
...program of the services follows: Organ Preludes A is venue de Noel Balbastre Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Carols Deck the Hall Welsh Carol Wassail Song English Carol, arranged by Vanghan Williams Touro-Louro-louro Provencal Carol by Nicholas Saboly Scripture Reading, Luke 2, 1-19 Carols Listen Lordlings Osgood Cancion de Navidad (Radcliffe only) Austrian Carol God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen English Carol A spetless Rose Howells Congregational Hymn "Adeste Fiedlis" Masters in this Hall French Carol arranged by Gustav Holst Carol of the Tapping Shoe (Har. only) Czech Carol To God on High Decius Benediction Organ Postlude Hallelujah...
...chairman of the delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours at a stretch with Mexico's shaggy, shrewd Ambassador Francisco Castillo Najara. Submitting to an Equatorial initiation by Neptune (Eugene P. Thomas of the National Foreign Trade...
...back to Los Angeles, where they were promptly arrested last week on a radioed complaint for "resisting the officers of an American vessel [mutiny]." Waiting the return of Captain Hoffman & Party, they told their side of the tale: while the Countess di Frasso and friends baited shark hooks on deck, the Captain was busy baiting Jews below...