Word: perpendicular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HURRICANE . . . SITUATION GRAVE . . . HAVE 30 DEGREE LIST AND JUST DRIFTING . . . At nightfall things got worse; the pig iron in the holds shifted and the ship rolled to port again as if she were going completely over. She hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with blankets as they huddled together for the night in a passageway...
...songs, such as No Lover for Me, are pleasant enough, but not really exciting, and the Porter lyrics generally display his signature without his skill. Hanya Holm enlivens the show with her decorative dances. And Out of This World brings back to Broadway, after 20-odd years, likable, prancing, perpendicular Comedienne Charlotte Greenwood. But it more or less brings her back in chains...