Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon was full as it sank lower in the western sky. The light gleamed almost too perfectly over the sinking tide, showing dimly the outlines of the hills on the mainland; far across the bay lights gleamed on a yacht, and there was a lightly-heard music from the deck where guests of a very rich sinner were dancing. There were only two figures on the great rocks by the beach, watching the silent panorama of moon and stars, listening to the waltzes from the distant craft. They were completely alone in the darkness, distinguishable only by the tips...
...made to disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and treasurer. He and they stood in line on deck to shake hands with the muddy-footed electorate. Filing awkwardly past, the electorate was then shoved onto a government barge towed alongside, encouraged to dance to phonograph music. At Alton there was a small charge for drinking water...
...cruciform James River Country Club near Newport News. After he had exhibited a print of what he believes to be the first recorded game of golf, reprinted from an illuminated Book of Hours in 1457 in the British Museum, Engineer Campbell dumped the rest of his treasures on the deck for the benefit of ship news reporters. They included a number of bullet hard leather pellets stuffed with feathers. "These are the famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover...
...received $250 a month from Bern. On the day following Bern's suicide Dorothy Millette left the Plaza Hotel, boarded the river-steamer Delta King for Sacramento. When the ship ar rived Dorothy Millette was not on board. Her cabin was empty. Her coat and shoes were on deck. Near them was a bag which might have concealed a bathing suit. Police busied themselves with dragging the river. . . . Few days later San Francisco police found another bag, left behind by Miss Millette. It contained friendly letters from Paul Bern and his secretary, wishing her a pleasant visit...
...passerby on the Boston Yacht Club pier at Marblehead, Mass, saw a man hanging head-down from the deck of a moored sailboat, his head & shoulders under water, his feet tangled in rigging, his body wedged between boat and pier. At a hospital, where he was given a fighting chance to live, the man was discovered to be Charles Brandon Booth. 40, a regional director of the Big Brother & Big Sister Federation, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America...