Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body appeared, floating head down in the water like a rug over a clothesline. Rescued and aboard the launch the dare-devil diver regained consciousness, complained of chills. Then he discovered that his back was broken, his body paralyzed from the waist down. With him in the boat were his wife, his mother, the lifeguard, and reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Examiner. There was no doctor. Bad enough-but then the launch's engine refused to start...
...1840s a rangy, big-boned, imaginative young Vermonter named Apollos Smith operated a boat through the northern canal connecting Lake Champlain with the Hudson River. In the course of a hunting trip Apollos was enchanted by the chill beauty of the Adirondacks and decided to open a sportsmen's lodge on the Saranac River near Loon Lake. He built it himself, with a living room and kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests...
...from San Francisco climbed a brand new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat named the Pan American Clipper after the sister ship which made the tests on the central Pacific service. In command as always when Pan American starts a new project was its taciturn senior pilot, Captain Edwin C. Musick. With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem...
...dither. Last week, as the Clipper creased the smooth waters of the bay, outrigger canoes and praus by the score shot from the beach, full of kanakas in loin cloths and laughing, broad-faced vahinis in red Mother Hubbards. They clustered so thickly as to impede the big flying boat to the exasperation of Edwin Musick, for whom savage breasts have little charm and who hates anything out of routine...
Died. John Drinkwater, 54, British poet & playwright; in his sleep, of a heart attack possibly induced by excitement over the Oxford-Cambridge boat race; in London. He subsisted as an insurance man until he persuaded a rich young friend, Barry Jackson, to back his play Abraham Lincoln. At his death Playwright Drinkwater had completed The King's People, a film to be released at the Coronation starring George Bernard Shaw, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lady Astor, himself...