Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gong rang sharply, followed by a hurried bugle call, and as the ship's bell began to sound the call to fire stations. Commander McHenry, dropping his knife and fork, rushed on deck. Flames were leaping from the ventilators; the fire was already beyond control. Hastily an S. 0. S. was sent, a moment before the wireless cabin was engulfed in flames. Men from sick bay were placed in boats and lowered to the water. The rest of the ship's company were forced to the bow by the conflagration amidships...
...this will continue to be the story. And yet Mr. Gill's political goose is probably cooked, simply because it is very difficult to rehabilitate a reputation once it has been shattered by a hostile press and because the state will hesitate long before withdrawing. It's a cold deck...
...difficult to appreciate the force of Mr. Smith's objections, and it is difficult to see how his poor substitute for the proposed law can claim the advantages of smooth passage and enforceability, since the card he suggests has already been played, and returned, neatly marked, to the deck...
Irish leader was Edward Cleary, a "graduate" of Sing Sing. He was found drunk in bed. In his dormitory and in the cosy little study he had fitted up for himself and his staff were three 10-gal. milk cans of home brew, a "deck" of heroin, a refrigerator bulging with contraband provisions which he sold or bartered for services...
...Turner, is a loud fellow of the baser sort who honestly wants to be friends with everybody. Banker Crowell quickly establishes himself as chairman of all entertainments. "Baby" Weedon has all the men on the ship running after her. The Robinson family invariably wins all the prizes for deck sports. After much heartburning in many lands the voyagers return, much the same, to their starting point-not the least satirical note of Authoress Parrish's inconclusive and entertaining novel...