Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Aug. 23, your review of Edna Ferber's Show Boat...
...recently this same French Lick Springs and the neighboring town of West Baden were mentioned in Edna Ferber's new novel-Show Boat. A famed gambling house in the vicinity was likewise mentioned-was referred to as "Tom Taggart's place." It had been often similarly spoken of before and the whole question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land...
...Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France-a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays-i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive by sharks last month. I rowed for shore. The brutes charged me many times but I got to safety, spread a warning...
...dragged him about like a chip. It was the rips and eddies, not the idle shark, that made John Radowich signal to be lifted out, after three hours of strenuous swimming had taken him only six miles. . . . Other aspirants to Mr. Wrigley's money followed Sailor Radowich by boat, including one Bodie Blewett, svelte bobbed beachling, who promised she would enter the marathon if and when held, sharks or no sharks...
Politely, in his best Teutonic accent, the invader thanked them, waded back to a small boat, boarded his launch, returned to Cape Gris-Nez, France...