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Word: boatfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boatswain James R. Ingraham, commanding a Coast Guard picket boat, shouted through the gloom of an early Florida morning last week at a fast little craft he had spotted on Biscayne Bay. "All right," came back a faint reply, but the boat, instead, went shooting off up Miami River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...picket boat pursued. Boatswain Ingraham turned to Fireman's Mate Harold Lopes. "Fire a few shots across her bow," he ordered. "Aim at the superstructure of the new bridge across the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

With his automatic revolver, Lopes fired. The quarry sped on. Then, on Ingraham's order, Machinist Samuel Jones opened machine-gun-fire from the picket boat's bow. Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs. Robert V. Latham, sitting up in bed aboard her husband's houseboat, one shot missing her by six inches; 2) "fanned" George D. Broughman, night watchman along the river; 3) penetrated the "parlors" of Undertaker John Gautier; 4) lodged in two houses on Miami's Flagler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice on the Fish boat. Capt. Larsen hove to. From the patrol boat to the Restless stepped a U. S. agent (No. 979). He had a gun. Others on the U. S. boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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