Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand Irish Mail chugging from Holyhead on the shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
...Other Camp. Twenty miles away at an abandoned resort hotel on Greenwood Lake, Pittsburgh's 182-lb. Billy Conn looked good - in training. There were no gin rummy games in his camp any more: Billy had lost $1,800 to his brother in less than a week. Now they played quick two-handed poker games, anteing $20 bills, and raising with $205. Occasionally Billy commanded Manager Johnny Ray: "Gimme another hundred." Said Manager Ray: "We're just a bunch of plain, ordinary bums having a good time...
With the traditional Poughkeepsie Regatta unscheduled this year, the Lake Washington row looms as the spring's top competition. Although it was not till late in the season that this regatta was planned, a large turnout, both of spectators and contestants, is expected...
Slated to row the 2000 meter sprint on Lake Washington are, at present, Sylvester Gardiner at stroke, Bim Chanler, Lane Barton, Paul Knaplund, Mike Scully, Tom Perry, Lew Bohn, and Barrie White in the bow, with Sam King behind the magaphone, in that order. John Gormley and Lou Cox will also make the trip...
...Blue Dahlia. Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Raymond Chandler's tight-as-a-drumhead melodrama (TIME...