Word: boatman
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...closing, we borrow the ASTP's song, to the tune of the "Volga Boatman," "Only 23 1/2 months to go"--or "Long time no see, Baby...
Died. John Archer Gee, 50, vast and vigorous Yale professor of English com position; after long illness; in New Haven. A masterful lecturer on the comma (or any other article of punctuation), an in trepid Maine Coast power boatman, he was perhaps the greatest tennis player of his weight (well beyond 200 lbs.) in the U.S. He observed: "I have to hit them hard. If they come back, I can't get to them." His advice to the young: "Not many of us can be Davy Crocketts, but some, perchance, may hope to fill the niche of Millard Fillmore...
...boatman who reproves the hero for offering him a high fee in the face of danger...
...small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled by both sides. At journey's end, too numb to move, they were carried through ice water and mud by the cheerful, barelegged boatman, given a royal welcome by Chinese villagers who had been raided and pillaged by Japanese for years...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...