Word: houseboat
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...helpers he does not quite break. One recovers his courage in time to run off with the trader's ill-used wife. Another, who had liked her too, sticks with Prin until rebellious natives pink him with little poisoned darts. Then Prin sits down on his rotting houseboat, gun on fat lap, to wait until they come...
...sold her first story when she was 23 (she is now 44). A plugger herself, she likes to write about workers. Her two ambitions: "To sit in a rocking-chair at the corner of State & Madison streets [Chicago] and watch the folks go by"; "to live on a houseboat in the Vale of Cashmere." Author of many a short story, co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two Broadway-produced plays, she has also written : Dawn O'Hara, Fanny Herself, The Girls, So Big, Showboat, Cimarron (TIME, March...
...tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting son Daniel, later used as a houseboat by Spencer Borden, only recently refitted for sea service...
...international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says gave her "a magnificent set of Haviland china"), the late Lord Kitchener (who she says gave her "a cross between a yacht and a houseboat"), King Edward VII of Britain, Herbert Hoover, King Leopold of the Belgians, and such celebrities as Fanny Ward, Harry Kendall Thaw, Morris Gest. Once she started from London to go around the world "by picking up my traveling and hotel expenses as I went," got as far as Japan, then lost...
...gland fed hypo-pituitarians daily can cure. That was what Dr. Buckley started to do last week, after the Edgewater Board of Education had reluctantly (because it feared legal complications) voted him $50 for Harold's treatment. But this socially intelligent medication the boy's parents, the houseboat dwellers, suddenly and in their legal right decided to forbid...