Word: motorboater
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...Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...
...Audiences will probably side with the murderess, who spends all of the early reels trying to manage five minutes alone with her husband. Just as it looks possible, she picks up a pair of binoculars and sees his brother, her mother, her adopted cousin and the caretaker approaching by motorboat...
Satisfied that he was limbered up Mr. Durrance . . . broke into a major theme of astonishing virtuosity: an outboard motorboat is drifting in a rock-girt bay, with no other sounds than the slap of waves on the hull and the seething wind. Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether...
...Among famed amphibian owners were : Lord Beaverbrook, who had two ; the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick, who brought his plane in for repair, smashed it so badly on landing he had to buy a new one; Motorboat Racer Gar Wood...
Albert Einstein, vacationing at Saranac Lake, N.Y., went sailing with several friends in an 18-ft. boat, capsized in choppy water, had to be rescued by motorboat...