Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail-road car") from Cincinnati to Cumberland...
...chiefly with Berry money, the Imperial Marble Co. has since been quarrying some marble each year, has sold in 1936-37 9,972 cubic feet at about $2.25 a foot. After the Norris Dam spread Norris Lake over part of their holdings, Imperial Marble continued to make shipments by boat over the lake to be delivered in Knoxville. These shipments, costing 21? a cubic foot more than overland shipments, figured prominently in Major Berry's first estimate that the TVA had damaged his mineral holdings by $1,633,000. the complaint he filed with TVA before he was appointed...
...impersonates seven other characters besides. Broadly caricatured and really funny is her dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck of the doomed excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail for her to clutch, she projects the full horror of the sinking ship. Later, as a sculptress who is Edna's husband's mistress, she contributes a sympathetic, plausible portrait that helps...
Gaunt Old Dr. Francis Everett ("The Plan") Townsend told Detroit's Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries a joke: "The President went fishing once and forgot his bait. He looked over the side of the boat, cleared his throat, and said: 'My friends-.' A thousand suckers stuck their heads out of the water...
...last week, fishermen put out in a small boat into Topsail Inlet, a cove varying in width from 1,300 yards to a mile, surrounded by flat, marshy, wind-raked country. Some distance offshore they came on a school of fatbacks so dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year...