Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporting the threat of suit by Mr. Thomas Taggart of French Lick, Ind., against Novelist Edna Ferber for the implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
...seconds later the engine of the boat from which Royalty had stepped exploded...
...upperclass crews collided late yesterday afternoon as they were rounding the bend in the Charles just above the Cambridge Boat Club. The bow of one of the shells was broken completely off just forward of the combings, and the other boat had a gaping hole stove in its side. Fortunately for those rowing, Head Coach Brown, and Coach Heard of the 150 pound crews were both nearby, and succeeded in getting all the oarsmen into their launches and towing the shells the short distance to the Newell boathouse before they sank...
University boat builder, W. F. Lutz has already started to repair the shells, and he expects to have them ready for use again within ten days...
Ticket holders only may enter through Gate 19 opposite the Newell Boat House on the northeast side of the field or through Gate 9, leading out of Stadium Street at the southern corner of the field...