Word: riverboat
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Esprit de corps, especially necessary to successful rowing, flourished among the Elephants. In fact, House Master John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, was so impressed by the House crow's zest for the riverboat life that he threw a party for it when it successfully completed its season...
Those who could followed the government's lead. Nanking's exits were choked day & night by streams of carts and automobiles heading for open country. Chinese riverboat captains no longer even dared let down their gangplanks at Nanking. From a safe distance offshore, they threw ropes to as many passengers as they could haul aboard. After the sinking of the overloaded SS Kiangya (see below), the military finally stepped in and took over all transportation facilities...
...Riverboat Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade...
...respectful. Yet its cool and clinical air reveals at times an underlying dislike which may be more destructive than the old quarrel between eagle-screaming Americans, whooping that they could lick the world, and haughty British remittance men sneering at them for spitting on the floors of saloons and riverboat cabins...
...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...