Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete the Tokyo to Paris (10,370 mi.) lap of the round-the-world flight which they started in October, with a hop across the South Atlantic. They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat. Their last spurt broke all speed records for the journey...
...interest in the Grand Central Palace and a neighboring office building in Manhattan. The deal involved $15,000,000. He said he would use the upper floors of the Grand Central Palace for permanent industrial exhibits and continue the policy of leasing the three lower floors for annual automobile, boat, flower shows...
Dulcet and decorative :Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, The Three Musketeers...
...especially hot day, they left the boat in the sedges by the river and went to sit near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what...
...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...