Word: boat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Introduced to a Chicago lecture audience by Novelist Margaret Aver Barnes (Years of Grace, Wisdom's Gate), Sinclair Lewis declared that he and her husband, Chicago Attorney Cecil Barnes, are in the same boat: "I also am married to a very distinguished woman [talkative Columnist Dorothy Thompson]. She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
Though it is miles this side of Ultima Thule, her newest book, The Young Cosima, will have allowances made for it. Reason: it concerns the most fantastic romance of the most fantastically romantic of composers, Richard Wagner. Wagnerian freshmen who think the Tarnhelm* was something to steer a boat with will take to the book no less than initiates, for the triangle has a dependable literary as well as musical tinkle. In this case: a great man wanting sympathy, a young man wanting love, an intensely ambitious young woman no more capable of love than a piano stool...
...Comparative boat fares...
Sample titles are "The Quest of a Flannel Row Boat" and "An Evening Behind the Eightball...
Highlights of the meeting will be: a trip up the Mississippi in an old river boat, the annual dinner, educational discussions, and a speech by President Conant...