Word: floating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They looked like toy launches made to float in a bathtub, but they were bigger. They stood on varnished or gilded cradles in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan-exhibits of the annual motor boat show. Salesmen at every booth gave away folders in blue and gold, in sea-green and orange, describing in fascinating language the advantages of their model's. Well-dressed people read the literature, studied the bright little boats...
...most part with good success. This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about the stage with a joyful zest and verve, doing more than their share of the work. Moreover, they do it as if it were play...
...They float down the Ohio on a raft with a Captain and a Professor. They penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
Hard by Lake Constance dwells a band of craftsmen skilled at a unique trade-the building of zeppelins. The late Graf von Zeppelin taught them the technique of their art and paid them well. During the War all Germany looked to them to float tons of explosives over London. Then came Versailles, and the building of zeppelins for Germany was forbidden. Almost, the great Zeppelin factories were ordered destroyed. Almost, the "zeppelin guild" on Lake Constance was scattered. These things did not take place because the Allies, covetous of reparations, agreed to accept payment in zeppelins...
...runs away to Jackson's Island leaving signs of a foul murder, the townsfolk first fire cannon over the Mississippi River to try to raise his supposed corpse by detonation ; then, hiding on the island, Huck sees them throw loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver out of the insides and eats them. "It was 'baker's bread'-what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone." Huck is joined by Tom and Joe and together...