Word: tugboater
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...movies since 1913) cinemactor; of a heart aik ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
brought out its first Golden Records for phonographs (Scuffy the Tugboat, The Poky Little Puppy, etc.), to sell at 29? apiece. The first three days enthusiastic parents cleaned out a Los Angeles store's entire stock of 10,000 records. S. & S. were sure the records would prove as golden as the books...
...Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...
Folks down here don't consider her-the biggest vessel on the river and bigger than many ocean-going cargo steamers-a "tugboat." She is a "towboat." An old lady of such poise, size and age should not be tagged with "tugboat...
...tugboat Sprague, known for 45 years from one end of the Mississippi to the other as "Big Mamma," the "shovingest" boat on the river, was on the banks and waiting for the wrecker. One of the last of the sternwheelers, she could handle 19 oil barges-the equivalent of a tank-car train ten miles long...