Word: speedboater
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...bride, a former telephone operator and daughter of a tugboat captain, Heir Dodge picked up a stick of dynamite in the garage at his camp. It exploded, cracked his skull and tore off his left arm. With friends' help, his wife, seriously hurt herself, put him in a speedboat, started to drive to a doctor across the bay. Pain-crazed, Daniel Dodge jumped overboard, drowned...
...Wood Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed U. S. speedboat racer who has held the Harmsworth Trophy since 1920: the national outboard motorboat championship for amateurs (Class A and Class B); on the muddy James River; at Richmond...
...Last week Great Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the land speed record of 301.13 m.p.h., raced his Bluebird over Lake Maggiore, twice smashed Gar Wood's five-year-old speedboat record to set a new world's record of 129.41 m.p.h...
...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
Approaching Honolulu in his yacht the Cressida, George Vanderbilt his wife and three friends put on bathing suits, put off in a speedboat and skimmed ashore. Next day the Vanderbilts & friends were fined $500 each for evading customs inspection...