Word: boater
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...Post's outfit filed forward for the payoff battle of San Juan Hill, it seemed as if they were being reviewed by a long-legged, black-clad civilian on muleback who sported a red tie and a straw boater. It was William Randolph Hearst, whose yacht lay offshore. "Hey, Willie!" yelled the troops. The deadpan press lord managed only the ghost of a smile, doffed his boater and said mildly, "Boys, good luck be with...
...white and indigo gowns of the western Yoruba country or the rainbow hues of the east. The Emir of Kano arrived at the entrance of the Parliament in a glittering Rolls-Royce, its horn blaring. In walked the popular Finance Minister, Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, wearing a straw boater and a figured scarf that trailed 4 yds. behind him. A jovial group of eastern M.P.s drove up in a red Dodge convertible with a big stuffed toy tiger propped up on the back seat. Finally the Speaker, in his legislative robes and wig, strode majestically into the chamber, followed...
...green boater has no business in these waters. But an old pro-such as A'Delbert Frank Rich, 41, a Cedar City optometrist and twelve-year boating veteran-should have been safe enough. Aboard his 15-ft., red-and-white cruiser he confidently brought his wife Penney, 35, and his parents, Frank, 65, and Lillian...
Gallused, collarless and tieless, his straw boater firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
...other tales, Author Bradbury cultivates what he calls the sense of "infinite interfusion." A boy is "taken over" by disease germs and himself becomes a bad seed whose touch can kill a pet canary. Exploring his musty attic, a man dons an Edwardian striped blazer and boater, is promptly whisked backwards through time to the lazy summer afternoons of his youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked...