Word: steamboated
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...steamboat cuts through billows, Miss Collett attained the finals. Her ultimate opponent-wide-eyed, 17-year-old Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume-kept step with her for 18 holes, then "cracked," lost four straight holes, became dormie two, eventually lost, 3 and 1. Miss Collett's last round was played...
...Author. John Herbert Quick was born to his destiny "near Steamboat Rock, Grundy County, Iowa." After living most of his life in Iowa he is now, at 63, a large-landed resident of West Virginia. His interest and energies?as schoolmaster, lawyer, editor, author?have been in- tense and abundant, centering chiefly on history, politics and the lot of the farmer. His public service has ranged from counsel for the Citizens Committee of Sioux City, when he "prosecuted boodlers" in 1894, to membership on the Federal Farm Loan Board (1916) and head of the Far East Red Cross Commission...
...regiment of roses, the filagrees of a frozen brook?these lift his heart; and his eye is quick to value those exquisite banalities of everyday life that the gross cannot see, and the great have not time to write about. When he sings of the "Pony Express," "The First Steamboat on the Mississippi," "The Coming of the Railroad," he strains his note; these themes call for a larger voice than...
...Their plan was to bring him out upon the river in a small steamboat, which was to be accompanied by the college boat clubs. On his arrival he was to be treated to a breakfast, then to a dance in Harvard Hall, in which the students would take part and young ladies would be present. Young ladies such as any young man, whether prince or not, would like to dance with. Then he was to be made an honorary member of some of the College societies, and initiated into their secrets and the day was to finish with receptions...
...grandfather, Mathias Stinnes, was a rich man. His father, Gustav Stinnes, was also rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis of raw materials. As years passed his millions increased, during the War they grew rapidly, and after the War they simply swelled up to grotesque proportions and in 1924 the man, Hugo Stinnes, had won a prestige by the force of cold cash greater than any other man in history...