Word: boating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty-fifth National Motor Boat Show, at Manhattan...
...officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles and home to Paris. On his recent flight home from Tsitsihar with Bellonte, Costes went by way of French Indo-China and broke his own record from Hanoi to Paris (4 days, 18 hours) by seven hours...
...Among the largest motor boat builders in the U. S. are, for cruisers, Elco, American Car & Foundry (ACF), Matthews, Consolidated Ship Building Corp., Banfield; for runabouts, Chris Smith & Sons, Horace E. Dodge, John L. Hacker, Gar Wood, Sea Sled...
...last boat built by Chris Smith & Sons for Gar Wood was Miss America II in 1921. Today Gar Wood has his own boat factory...
...There were possibilities of satire in the idea of a girl brought up in a South American jungle becoming a social success in a modern U. S. city. These possibilities were neglected; Untamed becomes a routine, highly improbable love story built around the man Miss Crawford meets on the boat coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with a deep, throaty twang; even her mutterings as Bingo, the jungle girl, do not spoil the effect of her natural vivacity and physical outlines. Silliest shot: fistfight...