Word: streamingly
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...time the crews were aligned on the race course they had floated 200 meters down stream, leaving 800 meters to race...
...indeed, by the 1940s, consumed by a spirit not unlike the one which had so driven Gatsby: the golden dream of love and money. Though Gatsby's funeral was unattended, the devil of his opportunism rose as a phoenix in Hollywood, there to mainline his ambitions into the blood-stream of America, and to deposit his dreams in a substratum of the American mind...
...unabashed chauvinism runs through Cambridge Sketches. Its authors speak pridefully of the "the Cambridge idea," fawning on the natural features of the city. Mrs. Emma Endicott Marean writes about the discovery of the river Charles by Englishmen: "No Hudson was this beguiling stream, which promised much in its wide welcome to the eager adventurers, but soon betrayed the secret of its dependence on the ebb and flow of the tides, confessing its narrow banks and its country manners...
...stream--the Ammonoosic--was only about a quarter of a mile away, finding it was only a matter of going across the street and under the trees. It qualified immediately as real pretty trout water, but things did not look too promising (a good true river for that, though, since things, at least in the fishcatching department, were not too promising). The water was freezing cold, so cold I refused to do any wading. There was some snow on the ground, not much, but hard icy snow in the hollows the sun does not hit. And it was 24 degrees...
...back on the river around 10 a.m. Still did not catch anything, but it made for a pleasant walk. There was an old lodging railroad bed paralleling the stream, and it was relatively easy to walk a fair distance since someone had kept the bed free of trees (probably for snowmobiling). Spring isn't far enough advanced in northern New Hampshire for the trees to have any green on them, but the evergreens give some color to the sides of the ridges, and the stream is completely free of ice, though only because the water is moving swiftly...