Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...
...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...
...brother's influence, Laurie marries an old friend she does not love, who later turns out to be an embezzler and a wife deserter. A neuroses shedding climax in front of her mother's portrait releases Laurie's guilt, and minutes later she winds up safely abroad a riverboat in Tyrone Power's arms...
...WORLD FOR NELLIE (38 pp.)-Rowland Emett-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A fussy, ramshackle British train with a bad case" of wanderlust spins off to America as a plane, masquerades a while as a riverboat, and returns as a submarine, fueled solely by the remarkable comic imagination of one of Punch's most inventive contributors...
Clyde Batchelor had impressive good looks, plenty of money and a good heart, but what he wanted most was respectability. When he came a-wooing Lucy, a lovely Richmond widow, he did not dare tell her that he had started life in an orphanage, that he had become a riverboat gambler and made a fortune in supply deals with the Union Army during the Civil War. But Lucy knew goodness when she saw it, and went off with him to Louisiana to live at Cindy Lou, a plantation Clyde had coveted when he passed it on the river. When...