Word: catboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cockpit was o wish to be dead, and to go below into the tumbling cabin was like wrestling with the hand of death itself. He mused a bit in the half light of the tin shed, and his eye caught on a splintered piece of the coaming, where a catboat full of roisters, flown with insolence and wine, had rammed him at anchor one moonlight night in Newport harbor. He burned a little, thinking of the language he'd used at them, and then smiled at the recollection of the derisive answer he'd got from a sharp contralto voice...
...most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid $200 and $300 apiece for his drawings by Harper's Weekly, but spent almost...