Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purchase unnecessary collections," but will "take care of his properties and the welfare of his tenants." Two young Danes, Neils Ventegodt and Emil Ullskov, both of the Viking Club of Copenhagen, surprised the London Rowing Club by landing at their quay, having popped over from Denmark in a row boat. Said one of them...
...while he made about $1,000 a minute from such winks, nods. Then the company settled down to serious bidding. A representative of Governor Fuller of Massachusetts paid $35,000 (the highest price of the day) for a small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...
...other, luffing, jibbing, stepping in and out of the seas in a staunch but hopeless attempt to sail under Hoyt's lee, was the Scotch boat Coila III, defending the Seawanhaka Cup, which was won 30 years ago by a 'British six-metre boat, never regained for the U. S. until a salute-gun boomed, a flag broke out from the staff in front of a yacht club, the Lanai crossed the line, left the sea to the toiling Coila III, the windy clanging of the gulls...