Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan has the desired effect upon the King but the chorus girl (Joan Blondell), finding herself incapable of keeping her side of the bargain, embarks to go home to Brooklyn. The explanation of the liner's complete lack of other passengers eludes her until, strolling about on deck, she encounters the ex-King, who has chartered it for the trip. When the wedding ceremony has been performed, ex-King Alfred orders the captain to take the ship to Niagara Falls, It goes there...
...shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted a survivor, "floating through the air, half of his head shot off, and land on the deck. It was awful...
Others put the argument in different fashion. Explaining his position to the Indiana General Assembly, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill of South Bend, wrote: "A packed jury, a packed Court and a stacked deck of cards are on the same moral plane. ... It is more power than a good man should want or a bad man should have...
Bells & Whistles-No other church on earth has the taste for pomp of the Roman Catholic Church, or possesses such a world-wide organization geared to deck a city with yellow-&-white flags, provide a week-long demonstration by happy, enthusiastic masses. The Committees of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress included even a Committee on Bells & Whistles, and last week when the Conte Rosso ploughed into Manila Bay all the bells in the city, all the craft in the Bay, including 15 "floating hotels" for Congress pilgrims, set up a prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta...
...interesting technically that they compensate to a large extent for the bromidic situations and embarrassingly obvious dialog which lay the ground for them. Noteworthy is the photographic exposition of the inventions for the safety of undersea craft-the operation of a specially marked buoy which, released from the deck and carrying a line, enables a wrecked submarine to denote to rescue craft her position on the sea floor; the Momsen artificial lungs (TIME, Aug. n, 1930) with which some of the Nautilus' crew pass to the surface through the emergency release hatch; the salvage air intake to which...