Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boned, 60-year-old Danish-American who likes to make motorcars and more motorcars. If anything interferes with this procedure he gets uneasy, at times even uses words he learned in 1900 when, as a raw immigrant, he was a shipyard's reamer in a New York torpedo-boat plant...
...railroad car. He has four homes (Manhattan town house, Long Island country place, Newport cottage, Maryland farm) but none of them is pretentious. His four daughters, beauteous like their mother, were never advertised as Glamor Girls, had no noisy coming-out parties. His only son sails a 15-foot boat on Long Island Sound?and when Father Woodward wants to go yachting he sails the little...
...more like the late John D. Rockefeller, 98, and his lean Duchess, 43, looks more and more like herself, they have recently been annoyed by long-distance peeckers who watch them at play in their seaside bathing pool near Cannes. Hearing that a tourist agency advertises a special $1.50 boat excursion "to see the Windsors bathe," having appealed in vain to the French Prefect (who said with a desolated shrug, "The Mediterranean belongs to everyone"), the Duke had tall canvas screens put up around the pool...
...cover the war." In a few minutes the phone did ring and Managing Editor David Tarbell told surprised Jock Bellairs that he was to cover the war. Correspondent Bellairs scooped Richard Harding Davis and many another prima donna on the attack on the U. S. torpedo-boat Winslow, returned to St. Louis a newspaperman's hero, went back to covering police. Around him have been woven some of the best-known newspaper apocrypha of that newspaperman's town. Samples...
...Goose were anything but foolish: they outsmarted the Scandinavians at their own game in their home waters, won the Gold Cup in three straight races for the second year in a row. On both sides of the Atlantic, Goose was hailed as the world's fastest small boat, George Nichols one of the world's smartest helmsmen...