Word: ferryboat
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...America steamed up from Quarantine, the heroes and heroines heard a sudden vast cacophony of factory whistles, ferryboat hooters, tug sirens, automobile horns...
John F. Hylan, New York Mayor: "A new municipal ferryboat, sistership to the recently launched William Randolph Hearst, is to be christened after...
...usual, activities will start early on the day of the picnic. The whole class will assemble and will go to the wharf in a special car, where a ferryboat will meet them to take them out to an island in the harbor. The picnickers will be supplied with caps in the class colors, horns, badges, and tin cups, as well as swimming tights for those who wish to take part in the swimming program...
...Wind (blowing a gale), N. S. by W. E. Off Blackwell's Island. Cheered by resident Cubans. Run fifteen bells in four hours, and at five knots pipe to dinner. Speak a ferryboat from Holmes Hole, short of provisions; give them a barrel of salt for ballast, and two able-bodied seamen (already blind-drunk and mutinous). Toward dusk a shot across our bows from villanous-looking pilot-boat. Press on under full head of canvas and steam, - she is overhauling us, - O for night! (Sable Goddess, - Young.) At ii P. M. near enough for conversation, too near for comfort...