Word: boatload
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...bulk of the issue is on Boston themes: Cabots, Lowells, beans, codfish, the Watch and Ward, non-sunshine, and non-health. The poetry concerns the disappearance and/or migration of Cabots and Lowells, and the appearance and/or immigration of fish. ("They come to Boston by boatload.") It is somewhat doggy and not very funny...
Most of the artists threw Verzocchi's bricks into an obscure corner, but some, e.g., Massimo Campigli in his subtly lyrical The Architrave, managed to get a whole stack of them into their compositions. Antonio Donghi, whose meticulously realistic painting of a peasant woman rowing a boatload of faggots was one of the most popular in the show, had floated his brick miraculously on water...
...distance cut to two miles, the sprinting Eastern crews were conceded a better chance in the varsity race over the Westerners, who are trained for endurance. As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint champions, huskiest boatload on the water. But at the mile mark it was already apparent that the East was outclassed again...
...greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
With more than six months until the season's opening race, Bolles in hardly committing himself on the subject of a prospective first boatload. He will not even guarantee that his five returnees can hold down their jobs next year...