Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fund to £70,000. Last week in Montreal landed the first batch of Canadian Fairbridgians, 27 boys, 14 girls, averaging ten years of age. Most of them came from around Newcastle. Solicitous Canadians found them a spruce and keen-eyed but impish lot who raced up & down the deck of their steamer, yelling, pulling one another's hair, tormenting their three chaperones. At the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School at Pemberlea, Vancouver Island, the 41 obstreperous youngsters and the 300 who are to follow them will be gently but firmly reined in by the principal, Major Maurice Francis...
Written by the author of "waiting for Lefty," "Stevedore" is a melodrama dealing with social conditions in the South as exemplified by the attempted lynching of a negro deck worker on a trumped-up charge of rape...
...Captain Sundstrom and his deck force, which distinguished itself for cool efficiency, had all passengers in life belts at boat stations along the lee rail. Boats were swung out to deck level and stewards passed up & down handing out fruit, sandwiches, coffee. And then the wait began. For a full hour passengers stood around for the order to go overside into the howling night. But the order did not come. Captain Sundstrom knew that to put out boats was certain death. The passengers began singing The Man on the Flying Trapeze. As soon as it appeared that the Dixie...
McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...Junior Deck Officer...