Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newhaven: Just as the cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which...
Even the more reputable of the brethren, who do not write theses for hire, and who try in some measure to teach, have never pulled their weight in the boat here. It is perhaps too much to expect, if not too much to hope, that the Questionnaire should be the beginning of the end. RED RIDING HOOD
There were no cold dead fish in the bottom of his returning boat when Franklin Roosevelt on his voyage southward paused at Trinidad to try a little off-shore trolling. Nor was there anything cold and dead about the streets of Rio de Janeiro last week when he set foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city...
...American Conference was not assembled until 1889, called by Secretary of State James Gillespie Elaine. Six others have followed. At these meetings, many more treaties have been written and most of them have remained wholly or partly unratified. At most of the meetings the U. S. missed the diplomatic boat by failing to win the confidence of its 20 fellow republics. Nowadays these meetings are regular quinquennial affairs. The next is due in 1938. No ordinary meeting therefore was that which met this week in Buenos Aires...
...Britain no cartoonist is quite so feared by statesmen and beloved by the public as omnipresent David Low, whose children will not let him shave off the beard he grew on a boat trip down the Volga...