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...stopped, snapped and retired. Cheers and handclaps were absent, but most of the spectators strained their necks. All present were impressed with the Baron's good sportsmanship. He smiled throughout the game, despite the fact that the British were losing. ¶Next day, lunch with Harrison Williams, a motorboat ride, dinner with Julius Fleischmann, yeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Princely Pilgrim | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

Yacht and motorboat sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Altered and Passed | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...secret of a new explosive which, when properly applied, is empowered to rupture the Rock of Gibraltar. The heroine (Shirley Mason) constitutes herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane at 50 miles an hour; shelled out of the airplane and then out of a parachute; escaped through the torpedo tubes of a submerged submarine. It may be inferred that the picture is gorgeously impossible, rabidly exciting. As a fitting climax the crazy prince is injected into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 3, 1923 | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Armed Against 'Leggers | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...Harvard Mission Committee has been notified of the need of three men for service in Labrador this summer. The Grenfell Mission wishes two men with knowledge of sailing and motorboat engines, while--the Reverend William Stride of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, also needs a volunteer with some experience in running engines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER POSITIONS OFFERED | 4/26/1922 | See Source »

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