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Word: bowsprits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships as a gymnasium . . . learned to swim in the fish cars. . . . For a time I had a West Indian goat, four dogs, a parrot and a monkey, all living in peace and harmony in the garret. ... I went to the Dime Museum so often that I could have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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