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...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...
...deck of the transatlantic liner Aquitania, scheduled to sail in a few hours for Europe, Conductor Walter Damrosch stood beside a Negro, extended to him a small disk of metal. Passengers who observed the ceremony could readily perceive that this was no casual donation of a gratuity. The little disk was, indeed, the highest formal honor which a Negro can achieve?the Spingarn medal, awarded annually* to that Negro who, in the opinion of a committee, has better deserved distinction than any other of his race. Tenor Roland Hayes, the recipient, expressed his thanks...
...family. He immediately takes the bridal suite for the two on the Bermudan, sailing for the blessed isle of the onion, lily and bottled goods that evening. Things grow more and more strained, not to say tense, but the play goes on till a general showdown occurs on the deck of the ship and Mary decides that doctors aren't so bad; while her aunt discovers in the uncle a long lost lover...
...battleship. Airplane bombs can damage ships in two ways: by direct hits or by bursting in the water alongside. At heights where there is reasonable immunity from anti-aircraft fire, direct hits are hard to obtain; and at lesser heights, bombs are not able to pierce modern deck armor. Explosions alongside are not seriously dangerous to ships with modern con- struction. Accounts of tests and their results were given in detail...
...ruptured and the few leaks that were started could easily have been plugged up, or the water pumped out. At no time did she list more than five degrees. No material damage was done by the shock to such machinery as she contained. Candles left burning on the deck were not extinguished or knocked over. Unless persons on deck should be washed overboard by water thrown up by the explosions, no loss of life could possibly be caused by bombing of this sort. After these explosions, a three-days' gale came up; even after this the Washington was in such...