Word: boated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Vagabond left the cockpit to return home; a Nantucketer who had been reckoning; the lines of his boat, shuffled his feet and spat over the wharf as though he wanted to step down and talk. The Vagabond hailed him to come aboard. The old salt accepted, and soon they were swapping tales such as only fishermen and sailors can. As the man, his face a grey stubble and his eyes reflecting a quiet pride, forgot the Cambridge puppy squatted before him and became absorbed in his own, other world, there unrolled a story...
...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...
...Leviathan sinks," was the cry that was circulating on the river yesterday afternoon as sixteen wet Yardlings were ferried back to Newell boat house from the stricken ship...
...play's situation entangles a boy in love with boats and a lady Ph.D. immersed in case histories. Christine Lawrence, virgin psychologist (Doris Daiton), meets young Skipper Hayden Chase (Henry Fonda), who distrusts learning and takes out fishing parties on the cutter which he bought after leaving Dartmouth. Despite the disparity of their interests, they fall in love, spending a night together when he jams his boat on a convenient sand bar. Love triumphs temporarily when Hayden takes a job in the city and marriage follows. Then their incompatibility leads them through quarrels to the brink of divorce...
...last time Henry Fonda appeared on the Broadway stage he was skippering an Erie Canal boat in The Farmer Takes a Wife. His sleepy-eyed, lethargic charm has since done him yeoman service in Hollywood but somehow seems a bit too somnolent now that he is back in Manhattan on his sailboat. Doris Dalton makes a pleasingly limber heroine...