Word: steamboated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bear to leave the plains, where nothing suggested home but the sun and the rats, where frogs had horns and dogs were wolves and rivers were yellow and men were red and where there were no laws save those of honor." When he first visited the Mandans on a steamboat, 2,000 miles up the Missouri, the chiefs and braves thronged his lodge. Awaiting their turn to be painted in strict order of rank, they sometimes spent the whole morning, from sunrise to noon, arranging their war dress and war paint...
...stovepipe hat. He never doffed either, even when pulling a key log in a bad jam. He seldom talked except to his fabulous horse, Bonnie Doone, who could travel 65 miles in six hours. Later he became one of Canada's first Senators, gave up lumbering for the steamboat business. His legend has been carried by his lumberjacks to lumber camps across the continent: all woods bosses are called "The Main John...
...boss of U.S. transportation is a bemedaled World War I veteran. Colonel John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, 65, quietly moved in last week as director of the Office of Defense Transportation.* For Johnson the move was a promotion from four years' service as one of eleven ICC commissioners...
Mickey discovered his gift a year and a half ago, seven years after quitting the ring. Someone had sold him a bad painting of a clipper ship and it disturbed him. He tinkered with it. After six months he had changed it into a steamboat. Then he saw a movie, The Moon and Sixpence-Somerset Maugham's story about Paul Gauguin. Next day Mickey bought an easel, a palette and a fistful of brushes...
...twelve years old - followed him by wagon. Mehitabel drove the wagon. Before she left New York she made the maiden trip up the Hudson on Fulton's Clermont. When she reached the Ohio wilderness the first thing she told Robert was of the wonders of the first commercial steamboat...