Word: boatmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon, when the white pennant rippled on the flagstaff of the Globe, signifying the performance of a play, the Thames was a bazaar of haggling, blue-coated boatmen ferrying several thousand eager customers crossriver to the prison district of the Clink, where the playhouses had retreated from puritanical city magistrates. The fops gossiped and smoked onstage. Jostling one another and munching sausages in the penny standing room of the pit were the groundlings and "stinkards," men who had unfurled canvas with Drake, but could not read or write. From next door at the Paris Garden came the snarls of mastiffs...
...Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...