Word: boatload
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayer) is Victor Herbert's 25-year-old operetta, revived as the vehicle for the first important cinema performance of Baritone Nelson Eddy. It concerns a French Princess who, to avoid a manage de convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying a colonist, Marietta gives...
...boat, get everyone safely ashore. Next day when the sea went down they salvaged most of their stores. Hall, tempted by Timoe's isolation to make a long-planned "experiment in solitude," thought of staying there six months, then thought better of it, went with the first boatload to Mangareva, thence home to Tahiti. His notes on Pitcairn Island, his shipwrecked volume of the Encyclopedia, went with...
...frequently happens in marine disasters, the first boatload of women upset while being lowered to the water. The second, sucked close to the still-thrashing propellers, was smashed. At least four women were drowned and more would have perished had not Steward Willy Bruns dived bravely from the rail of the third deck to their rescue. Apart from this accident, the rest of the survivors were landed safely...
This season Coach Ed Leader has gathered the greatest boatload of stalwarts that he has collected since he went to New Haven in the fall of 1922. It is not the most finished crew at present, but it is probably the most powerful. If the crew rounds into form at New London, its great power may offset any lack of finish...
Back to Manhattan last week steamed the biggest boatload of doctors ever to put to sea. There were 375 of them, mostly with wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...