Word: boated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call "Show Boat" anything but glorious and magnificent is to charge verbally into a line of critical and popular opinion that has held solidly for twenty years, progressively extolling first the original production and then each of two revivals. Nevertheless, ignoring for the moment whatever else it may be, "Show Boat" is not a great musical. It tells a dull story peopled with dull characters. Never does it generate more than a mild, academic curiosity as to what will happen next, and whatever does happen next invariably justifies the lack of anticipation...
Suggestion. In Prince Rupert, B.C., police investigated the name on a fishing boat, Guess Who?, dispensed with guesswork, scraped off the name to uncover the old one, pinched the fisherman for boat-stealing...
Passengers on the big old Boeing flying boat Bermuda Sky Queen began complaining almost as soon as she took off from Foynes, Eire. The Sky Queen's owners, American-International Airways, Inc., had provided few comforts for her nonscheduled flight to Baltimore. She carried 62 passengers and seven crew members-one of the biggest human cargoes ever crammed into a transatlantic airplane. After a night in the air, the complaints grew. The steward served nothing but orange or tomato juice for breakfast, told passengers tartly that he "had other things to do beside cook food...
Swamped Raft. After that, the heaving arena between ship and plane became the scene of desperate endeavor. The Bibb laid down oil slicks. A bigger, 15-man raft was maneuvered up to the plane, loaded and gotten out to open water where a small boat pulled passengers aboard. Three loads-seven people, then ten, then eleven -jumped or were pushed out of the plane into the raft. It was wild work...
...that nerve-racking night, the Sky Queen was blown 60 miles, and there was little the Bibb could do but make a lee, keep her searchlights on the plunging plane and wait for the worst. There were still 24 men and one woman aboard the plane. But the flying boat's hull stayed intact. In the morning, with the wind abating, the last of the passengers and crew were safely taken off. The cutter riddled the Sky Queen with gunfire, stood by while she burned and sank, then turned home...