Word: seasickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry them on to Havana. They never found it. After hours upon hours of tumbling about in a heavy fog, the retching Cubans cried that if they must die, they wanted to die on land. Two days later the schooner Harold put in loaded to the gunwales with more seasick conspirators, 52 of them this time, 39 Cubans, the rest Negro, Chinese, Mexican. Only one was a U. S. citizen. They were hiding under nets and in the lifeboats but to all questions they insisted that they had just been out for a fishing trip. Several could not speak English...
...managed to get eight men. Five of them had worked on Enterprise in the races. Stimulated by success, they were ready for more adventures. The anchor was stowed below decks and everything battened down. Before they lost sight of Nantucket Light-ship the sea freshened. The cook got seasick, the barometer went down. It looked as if there might be trouble. Captain Irving Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough...
...Backbone of the Fleet." The gentlest of swells and a light air from the west made it a perfect review morning, far happier than the morning in 1927 when Calvin Coolidge was first squeamish and had to sit down, then frankly seasick and had to lie prostrate below while the Fleet roared salutes for his momentarily unmanned office. President Hoover stood under the eight-inch guns of the Salt Lake City-10,000 tons, last crisp word in U. S. cruisers-and peered closely through binoculars at the trim masses of war machinery which soon came plowing past. From...
...week before that, a Miss Ada M. Wheeler, onetime Cincinnati school teacher, "carrying with her credentials of a special correspondent," had engaged the Times-Star's city room in conversation when the Leviathan's ship-to-shore telephone service was inaugurated. Afraid that "a seasick newspaperman on board . . . might recover and 'beat me to it,' " she spoke to Managing Editor Moses Strauss for three minutes, described the introduction of the service. The Times-Star splashed the story of the event across its front page and was not pleased when Publisher Howard's newspapers announced later...