Word: swanning
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...forbid, aren't powered by engine. But there are propellers, turned by young men strapped into bicycle-like setups in the rear of the boats. And in case the boat sounds like some Rube Goldberg get-up, rest assured that all the machinery is hidden inside a giant wooden swan that sits really at the stern...
...Annalyn Swan...
There were three tables in the hall. On the chief table was a well built ship with sails spread, and before it sway a silver swan drawing the ship with a silver chair. At one end of the ship was richly built castle. Among the numerous ornaments was a church with cross, chimes and four singers. There was besides a beautiful fountain surrounded with cliffs of sapphire and other rare stones. Twenty living musicians played inside a huge pastry--a castle in the form of that of Lusignan. In an uninhabited desert a lifelike tiger fought with a great serpant...
These books are somewhat scaled down--after all not many kitchens feature ovens large enough to roast whole oxen, nor do many now wish to nosh on "gizzards, livers, and heart of swan." But one can always seek the true spirit of Christmas in an eleven course meal, featuring, as one author suggested, "Friters of Parsnips, Funges, Aquapatys (boiled garlic) and the like, finishing of course with as much Hippocras (spiced wine) as the body could tolerate...
Saturday's loss certainly wasn't the Crimson gridders' swan song for this season. There are still eight games left to play. One thing is certain, though. No matter what Columbia's team does the rest of the season, last Saturday in Harvard Stadium will long be remembered in Morningside Heights as a Broadway melody...