Word: boater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents of air in the open). So specialized are these techniques that a skillful soarer looks upon power flyers with the same superiority that a sailboat skipper feels towards a motor-boater...
...girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig, sings Gallivantin' Aroun'. Allan Jones, despite a good voice, makes Magnolia's Gaylord Ravenal into a handsome nonentity. Familiar to many a Show Boater will be Hattie McDaniel, an amiable and enormous Negro who helps Robeson with a rollicking song called Ah Still Suits...
...Erie boaters, for whom the "canawl" was a way of life as well as a waterway, preferred to ignore this threat to a picaresque existence which was the more pleasant because it was so leisurely, the more adventurous because it contrasted so sharply with the sleepy green countryside through which the horses pulled the boats. Against a detailed and wholly charming background, made up of boaters' quarrels and friendships, their odd songs and foolish curses, their contempt for hogs as cargo, their obstreperous pride in getting drunk and having fights, the picture outlines an incident which fits perfectly into...
...Were aghast when, for the first time in living memory, an M. P. entered their House wearing a straw hat. Promptly the innovator, Major James Archibald St. George Fitzwarenne Despencer-Robertson, M. P. (Conservative), was suspected of conspiring to help the Princess Royal win her ?25 "boater bet" from her brother the Prince of Wales...
...According to Court rumor, Princess Alary recently argued that, despite Edward of Wales' failure to revive the fashion for straw "boaters" by wearing them in South America, he could still bring the boater back by wearing it persistently in England. This His Royal Highness is now doing (TIME, July 4), but is understood to have bet Her Royal Highness that the style cannot be revived, even by himself. As is usual when bets are made in the Royal Family, the ?25 is to go to charity. Settlement is supposed to be made at the close of this year...