Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five crews were chosen as evenly as possible, no attempt being made to select a first boat...
...time of night when watchdogs bark at a thought, a dream, waking farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...
Over two months ago an old man watched ship reporters interviewing celebrities on the deck of a boat. He himself was not annoyed by their yapping curiosity. When he stepped into the streets of Manhattan, he made no comments on the U. S. women, the tall buildings or the roaring subways but looked with intense interest at two large dappled-greys who were tugging a truck wagon along the cobbles of the waterfront avenue...
Five days later Dr. Logan confessed. U. S. papers delightedly printed first page stories of the hoax. Dr. Logan admitted she had ridden most of the way across in her pilot boat; averred she had done so with a purpose of confessing to warn the world that many of the recent channel swims looked "fishy." Believing that channel swimmers lie, she advocated an official board of supervision for channel swimmers; returned...
Since being capped Master of Arts in 1925 Haddon has studied law, and is now in the last year of study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in preparation for admission to the Scottish Bar. He is a member of the University Boat Club and has rowed for his faculty...