Word: rowboat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Case of Clyde Griffiths (by Erwin Piscator & Lena Goldschmidt; Group Theatre & Milton Shubert, producers). Thirty years ago an errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...
...pouring into the wild country were interested in two things: gold and news from home. The transport of both at fabulous rates became the expressman's job.† That they go through, come hell or highwayman, became almost his religion. At first carried by foot, horse, skis, dogsled, rowboat or river steamer, the treasure and mail eventually rode almost exclusively in the famed Concord stages, the first of which reached San Francisco June...
...Trainer Michael Kennedy took Champion Lucason out to groom him for a show at Englewood next day. Mrs. Ilch houses her 60-odd collies Beside the North Shrewsbury River. While he was brushing the dog, Trainer Kennedy heard a cry, saw a small boy who had fallen from a rowboat threshing in the water about 100 ft. offshore. Watched and tampered every day of his seven years, Lucason had never swum before. But when Trainer Kennedy cried, "Go get him." the champion plunged in, swam out to the boy, gripped his clothes in a long narrow jaw, towed him safely...
With the appearance of a professional diver, 40 men, a dozen spectators, a rowboat, and a pneumatic hammer or air-compressor on Memorial Drive below Dunster House yesterday afternoon, the suspicion dawned, especially on the minds of Dunstermen, that the Strauss Hall feed had assumed new proportions. Such was not the case, however, for although water is the subject out into the river, in order to speed the drainage of storm and surface the drainage of storm and surface water from the vicinity...
...present, the men take turns with the hammer. The hammer drives planks, which form the walls of the dam, deep into the stream bed. The driver sees that the planks maintain their position under water, and the rowboat serves the diver and all others who fall into the river...