Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Ongley Daryall, of the University of Reading, has been prominent in Rugby football, swimming, and hockey, as well as being the first president of the Students Representative Council, and dramatic critic for his university magazine. Andrew Haddon, of the University of Edinburgh, is a member of the University Boat Club, has served as President of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and takes an active interest in national as well as university politics. John Ramage, the third member of the triple-university team, has been influential in the undergraduate life of the London School of Economics and Political Science, serving...
...armed schooner through the ice floes of Cape Horn and eluded a waiting enemy squadron by fabricated wireless messages are details which read like the imagined adventures of the veriest romancer. The loss of the Seeadler and his further adventures in the Pacific, the description of the life-boat armed and converted into a raider crossing a thousand miles of open ocean to the wheezing and blaring of an antique accordion, and his ultimate escape from the English in a stolen officer's uniform would tax a reader's credulity if they were not already matters of record...
...Tomlinson is coming to the United States for the first time. In 1910, his boat "The Capella", stopped in a port of Florida, but immediately continued to England...
...Swedish six-metre boat May Be won the Scandinavian Gold Cup from the boats of eight nations last week at the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I. The cup, donated by the Nylandska Jakt-klubbens (Finnish yacht club) was won for the U. S. last year by the yacht Lanai. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany and England (with a bright scarlet sailboat) challenged. The U. S. defender Lea and all but Sweden, Norway and Finland were eliminated in preliminaries. Each then won two races; Sweden drifted through an almost airless afternoon to win a third...
GALLIONS REACH-H. M. Tomlinson-Harper ($2.50). After he killed a man on board a boat at "Gallions Reach," part of the grey, quiet Thames that breathes near the uproarious alleys of Limehouse, Colet was pursued by a ghost. Through shipwreck, riding the hot ocean in a tiny open boat, even in the green griddle of the jungle, there was always a hand upon his shoulder, a voice in his ear. Finally he obeyed the whispered command and sailed home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent...