Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made speed records 30 years ago on the Mississippi and who had a pair of gold-tipped elk horns to prove her an undefeated champion. The Betsy Ann's owner, Frederick Way, staked the elk horns that Captain Chris Greene was wrong and told him to put his boat on a starting line. They would race from Cincinnati upstream to New Richmond, 22 miles. Bells jangled, smoke belched, the skippers bawled orders through megaphones. The Chris Greene started ahead, with the Betsy Ann hanging alongside, taking smart advantage of the Chris Greene's swell. Negro roustabouts exchanged cheers...
Prince George, fourth son of Britain's George V, was assigned to the war boat Durban, last week, as "an interpreter in French." George V, the second son of Edward VII, was merely commander of H. M. S. Melampus when the death of his elder brother, now known as the Duke of Clarence, made him Prince of Wales, later King-Emperor...
...weather friends: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Greenwich Village Follies, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals...
Meanwhile, off Sandhamn, Sweden, Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan sailed H. B. Plant's Saleema to win the first of a series of international six-metre yacht races for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. Close was the finish, with a Dutch boat second, a Finnish third, a Swedish fourth...
Patricia Ziegfeld, daughter of famed Florenz Ziegfeld, profited last week by one of her father's excursions into the limelight. Being sued for $100,000 by Elizabeth Hines, who thought she deserved the position of leading lady in Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...