Word: stateroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voyagers who last week wanly looked at their stateroom ceilings or hung dejectedly over ship rails, wished from their hearts that everyone knew as much about seasickness and its prevention as does Dr. P. H. Desnoes, port medical officer at Manhattan for the United Fruit Co. Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its causation: 1) the labyrinthine (the ear contains two tiny sacs, the utricle...
...London. They wanted to ask him if he were fond of animals, if he had ever been arrested, what he thought of U. S. women, U. S. traffic laws, U. S. music. The most brazen among them, a goggled fellow, rapped sharply on the door of Gershwin's stateroom. "Come in," drawled a voice...
Died. Colonel Robert C. Clowry, 87, onetime (1902-10) President and General Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan, in his stateroom in a train just arrived from Florida...
...play presents the well-tried theatrical material of mistaken identity mixed-up staterooms, and gossipy women. The setting is on an ocean liner, a bit of novelty, and Misses Adelaide Matthews and Anne Nichols, the playwrights, have been more than usually original in the matter of situations and lines. The stateroom scene, when two strangers of opposite sex awake in the same stateroom, is very well handled...
...Tinney sailed for Europe. Imogene visited him on the steamer. Variety (theatrical weekly) concluded that they must be reconciled since they spent several hours in his stateroom apparently in earnest conference. The newspapers bulged anew. Imogene went back to the Follies and found herself without...