Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildest shoot currently burgeoning from the royal family tree, accident-prone Edward, Duke of Kent, 20, seventh in line for the throne of England, was afflicted by spring fever on a madcap evening in London aboard a pleasure boat moored in the Thames. When the revelry dulled, two fully clad male wassailers, inspired by ?5 wagers, went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked...
...TURBINE ENGINES will soon be competing in the pleasure-type small-boat market. Boeing Airplane Co. has won first commercial contract to install eight 240-h.p. gas turbine engines (used to start jet planes, power minesweepers) on cruiser fleet operated by Creole Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. New engines give speeds up to 33 m.p.h., weigh one-fourth as much as comparable piston engines...
...under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake her distressed husband similarly encounters many adventures including the shower she had left running in making her get-away, an irate concierage, imperturbable relatives, and an Italian galloping trombone band. In an air of intensified pseudo-coherence the couple reunites and, to the tone...
...stable, looked carefree as he emplaned for Brussels and a convention of the World Veterans Federation. Flying with him was Disabled Veteran Harold Russell, onetime cinemactor (The Best Years of Our Lives) and an official of the World Veterans Fund headed by Vanderbilt, a wartime Navy lieutenant and PT-boat skipper...
...things considered, the proletariat have the best of it. Nothing can really top lurching about in a motorboat while some M.I.T. freshman at the helm tries to disprove all manufacturer's claims and show that the boat will tip, with the clear spray of the Charles in the face, and a faulty stopwatch in the hand...