Word: ferryboats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner, perform a marriage for an eager friend, rush off to inspect a swimming pool, a hospital, a ferryboat or a street accident...
...State of Washington, loyal Democrats of Thurston and Mason Counties disputed over which should be host for the local Roosevelt Victory Dinner, finally agreed to feast on a ferryboat anchored between both counties in the middle of Puget Sound...
...Delhi, India, a snake attempted to board a ferryboat, caused frightened passengers to dash to the other side, the boat to capsize, 50 persons to drown...
...whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed his wife: "Don't wait up for me. Be home late. Boat sprang a leak...
...gambling house in China. Gus (W. C. Fields) is a down-at-heels Alaskan gambler, who has just escaped being lynched for murder. Long since divorced, Gus and Tillie are reunited by the terms of Tillie's brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race...