Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sank as a result of the explosion of a submarine mine. Because so little is known, or because there is so little to know of the presumptive death by drowning of Lord Kitchener, the press has been flooded with recurrent rumors that: a) He was seen in an open boat and may have escaped. b) His corpse has been found (in various localities). For the past month one Frank O. Power, journalistic free lance, has been selling articles to London papers, also the New York World and many another news organ, describing how, after three years of patient search...
Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...
...Show Boat...
...Hoover! Hoover!!" shrieked the crowd at St. Catharine's on the shore of Lake Ontario last week. They were cheering, not for a Cabinet member, but for a sunburned man whose body rose out of the middle of a boat as narrow as a needle and whose arms, pulling, stretching, pulling, drew his craft past that of Johnny Durnan to win the single sculls of the Canadian Henley-Walter Hoover, no relative of the fleshy U. S. Secretary of Commerce...
setting forth the good each lodge of the 1,500 has done since the last reunion. They had sat through boat excursions, business sessions, dinners, dances, vaudeville shows. They had decorated floats, waved flags, worn paper caps. Now, the big time over, they were ready to go home...