Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich, young Sportsman Vicente Mamano Neto and two friends decided to cash in on experience gained in wartime anti-U-boat patrols, started a service on the lucrative Rio-São Paulo run. The up & coming Santos-Dumont company wasted no time, flew passengers the day they got their first plane, bucket seats...
...will be scheduled for 3:30 o'clock at Soldiers Field, lacrosse at 3:30 at the Business School field, track at Soldiers Field with times to be arranged with Coach Mikkoia, and tennis from 11 to 6 at the Soldiers Field courts. Singles will be available at Weld Boat House from 10 to 5 o'clock...
...Ship, an ancient Tudor pub with sawdust on the floor, overlooking the finish line. Publican Gus Foster, an ex-lion tamer, thought some of the old boat-race flavor was missing. He remembered the time he bet his shirt against a lady's blouse-and won. "She took off her blouse right in the public bar," he said. "She was a sport, she was." For 30 years he had rented out window space on The Day, and usually quadrupled his sale of beer and short-order meals...
...just two tweedy Cambridge men (one without an arm), two half-pint ratings from the Submarine Service, two burly noncoms from the Grenadier Guards. A tipsy ex-Tommy wanted to bet five pounds to four on Oxford and got no takers. A radio blared. Said Gus: "The boat race, it's dying out, that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing, but some...
After the race, Gus looked gloomily at the untapped kegs in his cellar. In London that night there was little of the tipsy tradition that made it a duty of The Day to knock off at least one bobby's high-domed helmet. A girl at her first boat race asked her young man: "What does one do after a boat race?" "Go home," he said...