Word: decking
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More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...
...last-minute directive from the Palace permitted lady guests to deck themselves in the stars and ribands of whatever orders they might possess, and-as if to keep his daughter from being outshone in the glitter-King George invested the royal bride in the broad blue riband and jeweled insignia of the Order of the Garter...
...Halsey out of position. On that occasion Admiral Nimitz bluntly radioed to ask where Halsey's battleships were. Says Halsey: "I was as stunned as if I had been struck in the face. The paper rattled in my hands. I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something that I am ashamed to remember. Mick Carney rushed over and grabbed my arm: 'Stop it! What the hell's the matter with you? Pull yourself together...
Much of their work consists of regular deck-scrubbing, water-testing, leaf-skimming, and extracting dead rats and bobby pins from pools. In Beverly Hills, whose 700-odd pools occupy most of their time, the job is far from routine. After police had searched two days for Actor Joseph Cotten's car, reported stolen, Cotten found it and called Ilsley's men to retrieve it, from his pool. Another time, they fished a live deer out of Joan Fontaine's pool. Jack Benny, who had an octopus molded into the bottom of his tank for laughs, called...
...five-deck sidewheeler with a 20,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, the Island Queen operated out of Cincinnati, where for years she had made daily summertime trips to an amusement park called Coney Island. When the Coney Island season closed on Labor Day, she went barnstorming upriver, booked ten days of excursions out of Pittsburgh...