Word: houseboats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order, Machinist Samuel Jones opened machine-gun-fire from the picket boat's bow. Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs. Robert V. Latham, sitting up in bed aboard her husband's houseboat, one shot missing her by six inches; 2) "fanned" George D. Broughman, night watchman along the river; 3) penetrated the "parlors" of Undertaker John Gautier; 4) lodged in two houses on Miami's Flagler St.; 5) aroused hundreds of Miami sleepers; 7) stirred Miami's City Commission to consider...
...Houseboat on the Styx. Thirty years ago, John Kendrick Bangs wrote stories about a yachting party near Hell. Producer Ned Jakobs thought that these stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine...
...talkie) is an uneasy and mildly sarcastic attempt to parody Crook Cinema which, in various disguises, has constituted nearly half of the recent output of Hollywood. Lots of crooks, including May McAvoy, a lady crook, sometimes dumb, sometimes stabbing into speech, come through Florida fog to a deserted houseboat on which the mother of a millionaire's son has left a pearl necklace worth $200,000 in cinema money. Boob detectives supply most of the comedy and Conrad Nagel's voice the best vocal sequences of a gentle melodrama which is parody only by afterthought...
Rent Free. For five years Mr. & Mrs. Hadley Beck, U. S. citizens, have lived rent free in Paris, by tying up their houseboat to docks along the Seine. They have even escaped dock rent by moving their boat a few yards every fortnight...
Each college has its "barge", a houseboat where the men can change, and from which the crews normally start. The barges, numbering about 20, are moored together broadside along the river bank. His college barge will play a large part in the life of the successful carsman...