Word: steamer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK. "Unless they let grass grow in the streets, the life of New York will be short. Cain was the father of urbanism,* and Cain is still murdering his brother. Like a little boy with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated by the city. We like clamor, and the clamor becomes glamour. We become insensate to beauty-but beauty is a word that soon will be taboo. I only use it when I feel weak and foolish...
...There is always the chance of a cancellation, however, and applying now for reservations in June can do no harm. The special student sailings, when accomodations are available, cost approximately $160 one-way to Europe and, with the exception of swimming or getting a rare job on a tramp steamer, are probably the cheapest way of getting across. For details about these ships, and for information about any bookings, prices, or tours, the best plan is to consult a travel agent...
...small Liberian steamer Semiramis, chartered by the Red Cross, slipped into her berth in Barcelona's harbor, hundreds of hysterical relatives and friends leaped or shinnied aboard to embrace the returning soldiers...
Prices at most Bermuda hotels during the spring holidays average about $14 a day on a modified American plan (breakfast plus lunch or supper included in price). Plane fare to the island is about $120 round trip including tax. Steamer fare...
...fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...