Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selected by a committee headed by Captain Smith and are to be confined in opposite cells for a week. For 23 hours a day they are to be fastened in their cells with an ankle chain, and for the 24th hour are to take exercise on the upper deck, secured by a ball and chain. During their solitary confinement they will be forbidden to speak, but may talk during their hour of exercise. At the end of the week, each man is to be awarded $125, or, if one drops out, the survivor will receive...
...over now, but the flagstones of Memorial must feel like the tramp steamer whose captain reported that the whole Atlantic had swept over them, but, the deck holding, it had passed on off the other side...
Eddie Borden's act is a girl-and-music farce and its success is largely due to his clever acting and witty remarks. The chief feature of the act is the reproduction of a Fifth Avenue bus, on the upper deck of which several burlesque types are introduced...
...seats and the three right-hand seats open to smokers--if no one else wants them first. The Fifth Avenue Coach Company did not take action until after a plebiscite among its passengers. The opinions of those who ride on the buses because they can smoke on the upper deck, and the opinions of those who object to have smoke, fire, and ashes in their eyes and hair are all set down in a pleasantly written and charmingly printed booklet by the coach company. Ah, yes! As charming and pleasant a pirate booklet as ever scuttled-one of the pleasures...