Word: decks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck blew the ail-ashore bugle. Mookini got off; Mrs Massie stayed...
...York, on trial for his life for murder, William J. Turner, 21, pulled out a deck of cards, began playing solitaire. The judge stared, sent the jury out of the courtroom, protested. Attendants confiscated the cards. The judge spoke briefly on courtroom conventions. Said Defendant Turner: "What do you think I am going to do-sit here...
Getting the jump at the very start, G. J. Cassedy '33 set the beat at a high stroke, and managed to hold on to a deck length's lead all the way. Up to the Harvard Bridge, the water conditions were fair, and good time was made, but from there on the chop was as bad as the crews have rowed in this year. As the two boats drew near the finish by the Union Boat Club, the Jayvee stroke, A. H. Parker '32 raised the beat, which he had kept lower than Cassedy...
...deep. The frame is made of white pine, and all parts are mailed and not glued, as popular superstition would have it. The cover is made of solid pieces of Spanish cedar, and is also only one-eighth of an inch thick, and is mailed on, not glued. The deck is covered with waterproof silk...
...better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck cr Florenz Ziegfeld's Smiles. Best number in Through the Years is "Drums In My Heart," which should be drumming long after the show is packed off to the warehouse...