Word: tented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat. . . . Merciless cold driving through the canvas walls of this flying tent. ... I have visualized myself gracefully draped over a saloon window ledge romantically viewing the moonlit sky. The men . . . have reminded each other not to forget evening jackets and boiled shirts in their baggage. We have drawn ourselves lovely pictures of dining elegantly in mid-air with Commodore Eckener at the head...
Postmaster I. O. Yoder, a remote cousin, entertained at lunch. All afternoon there were conferences and buzz-buzzings in a big tent pitched behind the high school. Dinner was a Hoover-family reunion at Remote Cousin Ralph Branson's (on whose farm was the swimming hole...
Next, he comes snorting into the tent of Sharon Falconer, a pretty, vicious and successful evangelist. The audience is permitted to hear his harangues for heaven and then to overhear the back stage scene wherein Gantry gains quick access to the couch of this ignorant and lusty lady. With her he goes to Atlantic City, to inaugurate a pier tabernacle, the biggest in the world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue...
...Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos. North of Alaska, on Herald Island, they found the remains of a tent, guns, cooking utensils and the bones of four men lying, side by side, on the frozen ground. The Snows, father and son, buried the bones, solemnly, and then raised a flag claiming Herald Island for the U. S. Explorer Stefansson commented on the film via Movietone...
...dance which is really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan. Later, the Maharajah discovers that he has been photographed; he swoons. A doctor offers to aid him, takes him to a tent, murders him, steals his precious emerald. And, all the while, Miss Pat, hidden in an adjoining tent, is recording every detail of the murder with her camera. How this scoop of scoops reached the office and what happened to Miss Pat are done in the best delayed-climax manner...