Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were served on board of what the tickets described as "the Dancing and Eating Boat," but the games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty...
First to leave the U. S. is the stout sailing boat City of New York (nee Samson), veteran of Arctic service, with the three airplanes and.all explorers except a small group headed by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd himself. This smaller group will leave during the middle of September from Hampton Roads, Va., on the whaler Larsen. Both ships are scheduled to reach Dunedin, New Zealand, in the last week of October. Here a third ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales...
Potent Pigeon sailed a small boat around the world...
...this idyllic era of goodwill, the strikers themselves have played model parts. Not a single crime, major or minor, has marred the dignity of their protest. Many a spinner, wearying of charity, has reverted to the occupation of New Bedford's colonial days. Borrowing or building a boat, he has gone fishing, bringing in a catch he could market in the city. Gravely, the strikers' womenfolk gather in the streets to discuss the day's events in a babel of tongues. Never has the U. S. seen such a rebellion...
...ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with terrific force and the wind, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles, made us heel over so that the gauge registered 25 degrees. The lee rail was buried under...