Word: schooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. The sole cause of failure was the refusal of the New-foundland government of that day to give me the protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom the number of herders I was able to afford could not protect them. The herd is now growing again under the protection of the Canadian Government...
...picture showing action, mere movements of a man walking, was novel enough to succeed. The pictures of today, most of them, are in story and development hardly more advanced than the early cowboy and Indian stories, where the only difference in plots all of a pattern, the prairie schooner, the attack by Indians, and the rescue by the cowboys and by soldiers from the fort.--was the change in costume worn by the principals. Plots of today are inane and get nowhere; but how the censorship can help raise the level is difficult...
...Furlong turned his attention to the West of this country, where he visited several Indian tribes and a year later in 1914 won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the famous bucking bull, "Sharkey". That same year he crossed the Atlantic in a 22-ton schooner and proceeded to the north and west coasts of Africa where he explored many islands...
...news that a Boston syndicate is building a "fishing schooner" of an especially fast design with the intention of carrying off the International Fishing Boat trophy next summer, when the ships from Lunenburg and Gloucester again compete, has aroused, a storm of quite justified indignation in Canadian ports. The Halifax "Herald" which originally gave the trophy, conveys in an especially caustic editorial, the sentiments held by all lovers of fair play on both sides of the border. The cup was offered for bona-fide fishing vessels only and the races were to be sailed in whatever weather Dame Fortune...
Esperanto, two-masted schooner, outward bound from Gloucester to Halifax, has aroused the interest of all who are familiar with the traditions and character of American seamanship. For that same schooner, an American vessel with an American crew, is to race the challenger from Canada for the supremacy of North Atlantic waters. No butterfly drifting contest, this, but a real battle, regardless of weather conditions, and fought out by men of the old clipper-ship stock--men who are best able to uphold our fame and reputation...