Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scatterbrained John Thoening, a youth, wished to come to the U. S. He secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside...
Safe Bets-Show Boat, Present Arms, Funny Face, A Connecticut Yankee, Good News, Three Musketeers, Rain or Shine...
...landing field at Cape Town, almost afraid to come down and hear that her rival had reached London and the record before her arrival. When she landed, she received different news. Lady Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical rivalry, she started back from Cape Town...
Coach E. J. Brown '96 has kept C. McK. Norton '29 in Mason's place in the first shell since the Tech-Cornell race last Saturday and it is probable that Norton will be in the boat at starting time this week end. D. S. Greer '29 has taken over Norton's post on the Junior University crew...
Pennsylvania is accorded only an outside chance Saturday against the heavy eight stroked by Captain John Watts '28 and the last Navy crew. For a Crimson victory, it will be necessary for Watts to pace his boat at a beat three or four points higher than the 36 strokes to the minute he has used successfully on the Charles against M. I. T. and Cornell...