Word: seasickness
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...poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately came down with malaria. His fellow-planters thought he was awful; ragged him for a while...
...before 3 a. m. For most of the ship's company it had been a dreary evening. They had sat in depressed groups after dinner, gone below later to pack while stewards and stewardesses whisked up & down the corridors comforting two-thirds of the passenger list which were deathly seasick. But Miss Cullen and her friends were bound to make a night of it. stay up and see the dawn over New York Harbor. They never saw it, for suddenly a cloud of smoke began to pour from the library. Some seamen were slopping buckets of water on a blaze...
...first time the combined Battle and Scouting Forces had been massed in those waters since the Fleet came home in 1918. Hampton Roads is the Navy's traditional parade ground. There in 1907 another Roosevelt dispatched his "Great White Fleet" on its first world cruise. There in 1927 seasick Calvin Coolidge received the Fleet's salutes slumped in a chair on the deck of the Mayflower. There in 1930 Herbert Hoover gloomily watched a gloomy and debilitated flotilla go by. Exercise M. Behind the Fleet, as it steamed toward its New York review, lay long weeks of hard...
...seasick Harvard lacrosse team was powerless before the strong second half attack of the opposing Princeton ten Saturday afternoon, and went down to defeat 8-4. The summaries: HARVARD PRINCETON Forbush, g. g., Britten Rogers, cp. cp., Vrooman Whittemore, p. p., Kirkland Holsapple, 1d. 1d., Murphy Rabinovitz, 2d. 2d., Shea Edmands, c. c., Classen Murphy, 2a. 2a., Winterman Lessig, 1a. 1a., Chapman Housen, oh. oh., Rytina England, ih. ih., Wardell...
...arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt "101 Ranch" and Wild West show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts...