Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco-Mola forces had been so inaccurate that in London, famed Hector Bywater could write that thus far not a single Spanish ship seemed to have been sunk by air bombs. Two days later planes of the Revolution put the Government's best and biggest war boat Jaime Primero (James the First) out of action with 625-lb. bombs which scored direct hits on her forecastle head. This was not Spanish marksmanship and neither the planes nor the bombs nor the airmen were Spanish...
Transporting 3,800 men from Morocco was the rebel command's high spot of the week. The column thus constituted was expected to make a new attack on Madrid from a new direction, the southwest. Most important boat used in the crossing was the Dato, a rebel gunboat. The lumbering Jaime I, flagship of the loyalist fleet, later discovered the Dato in the harbor of Algeciras, shelled and burned her to the water line while British officers watched through field glasses from Gibraltar across the bay. The bombardment also set fire to odorous piles of cork, waiting shipment...
...Delhi, India, a snake attempted to board a ferryboat, caused frightened passengers to dash to the other side, the boat to capsize, 50 persons to drown...
Suzy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine of this picture, an impulsive chorus girl stranded in London, buys a newspaper to read on the boat to France, the headline says: AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATED AT SARAJEVO. The purpose of the picture, up to this point unrevealed, thereafter becomes clear. Other stories have shown some of the individual happenings which overtook individual farmers, bellringers, soda-jerkers, et al. at the outbreak of War. Suzy sets out to include in one picture all happenings which overtook all chorus girls stranded in all countries in all wars. Over a period...
President Rogers, 52, twelve years an osteopath, an outstanding citizen of Oshkosh, Wis., where he is president of the Kiwanis Club, vice president of the Welfare Board and commodore of the Power Boat Club, had had a happy, busy, exciting week. Of the 9,000 osteopaths in the U. S., over 2,000 were at the convention. Their special bypath of curing disease by actual might & main is, they feel, on the upgrade. And they looked to President Rogers to keep pushing it higher by metaphorical might & main...