Word: float
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins, Tom Thumb (first U. S. locomotive), first telegraph, first U. S. electric car. Tolerant Baltimoreans rejoiced to see Catholic, Masonic, Jewish fraternal organizations parading amiably together. Up-and-coming Baltimoreans, impatient with these oldtime mementos, bustled pridefully at reminders of civic betterments: police floats "Heroism" and "While Baltimore Sleeps," Bureau of Street Cleaning float "Intersection of Streets," Bureau of Sewers float "Sewage Disposal." Nostalgic Baltimoreans thought of old time celebrations when oysters exclusively Baltimore's were eaten, when red rye whiskey preeminently Baltimore's was consumed by the barrelful...
...fabulous structure at the water's edge-a yacht-like thing beneath a single wing 157 ft. wide. Above the wings were six turrets supporting six pairs of tandem motors. Mechanics, climbing up through the turrets, inspected the motors. Below the mono-wing on each side was a float like the half wing of a sesquiplane. The great structure was the mighty enlargement of Dr. Claude Dornier's Super-Whale, which he had been secretly building for two and a half years. Its flying capacity was 100 passengers. It was going on its trial runs. Dr. Dornier, usually...
Parades, music, an elephant borrowed from the Sells-Floto Circus, six Lincoln voters riding on a float, speeches, made up the scheduled events. Unscheduled were the activities of a squad of Dry agents under a "Missouri Democrat" who operated through Ripon during the celebration. At the height of the party and before the eyes of Secretary Good and Governor Kohler, they descended upon a soft-drink place directly opposite Jubilee headquarters, found inside several Wisconsin legislators, eight barrels of beer. Incensed celebrants threatened public condemnation by the State Legislature of this harassment by U. S. agents...
...this time the shell looked better than it has since its arrival here. There was no catch at the end of the stroke and the eight men were working well together. There was a slight delay in getting the boat into the water due to the fact that the float, which started leaking in the afternoon sank to the bottom of the river before it could be saved. This mishap made it necessary for the crew to launch the boat from the bank and most of the oarsmen were thoroughly drenched in the process...
...likely that the fairgrounds will be shaped and hollowed like a giant amphitheatre, the centre axis being a lagoon, 2,000 x 600 ft. Entering the Fair on an upper level of this lagoon, visiting dignitaries such as the U. S. President will float on ceremonial barges through a succession of descending locks to the lower levels. The dignitary and his voyage will be visible to every person at the Fair, spectators merely having to stand on the terraces or roofs of the various buildings to survey the entire amphitheatre...