Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impetuous Jeritza who kept falling and singing arias from unlikely positions. Oldsters remember how, in 1905 at the Met, the bridge across which Carmen was to make her escape suddenly collapsed and sent 15 members of the chorus sprawling. When Georg Anthes was singing Lohengrin in 1903, his swan-boat upset and flung him flat upon a painted ocean. In 1924 Curt Taucher, as Siegfried, was climbing the fire-girt rock when he unluckily stepped through a trapdoor...
...sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along at 40 m.p.h...
That is ice boating, a sport as old in the U. S. as the meeting in the cellar of John Vassar's brewery at Poughkeepsie where his cronies formed the first ice yachting club in America in 1861. Once lording it over the railroad trains they outdistanced along the banks of the Hudson River, ice boats yielded to river ice breakers, and ice yachting waned in the East except at such centres as New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, Lakes Hopatcong and Greenwood, the Mystic Lakes in Massachusetts, Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York. In Scandinavian Minnesota...
...Brothers Meyer is also credited development of the popular "skeeter" ice boat. When introduced in 1931 on Lake Pewaukee by one Roger Joys of Milwaukee the first skeeter was merely a ten-foot triangular wooden frame supported on three runners, carrying a small sail on a 15-ft. mast. Today it is a sporty, front -steering ice-racing machine with 75-ft. sail area, manageable by a girl, thrilling enough for a man, inexpensive (150-$250). light enough (125 Ib.) to be disassembled and hauled about by auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie...
...They average from five to eight inches long when market-sized. They are bright red in color, differing in this respect from the southern shrimps which are green, and generally live on muddy bottom in depths of 60 to 100 fathoms. That is not an easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken. Thus they will probably supply is winter fishery, and a very welcome one to Maine small-boat fishermen, who need something to bolster...