Kern-Hammerstein musical

Usage examples of showboat.

In the gray, driving rain, the showboat loomed like a small dark mountain.

Now, as the two most powerful figures on the showboat stared at him, he wondered if he might not have been better off letting the vatchlet just do its worst.

It looked as if every man, woman, and especially child that could possibly get to the showboat was standing out there, gawking.

And every hand that might be useful was put on a rope for the several hours it took to get the showboat up and running.

We are part of the showboat family now, and they are notoriously close mouthed around strangers, especially when someone has come around asking questions about one of their own.

Cravan recruited people from all over the showboat for non-speaking roles.

Every planet a showboat visited invariably produced a few local people who hired on.

Instead, he did something that a showboat almost never did: he bought advertising time on the news com-channel.

The whole first day, the showboat was dark, running extra dress rehearsals for every act, even the sideshows.

But the pride of his heart was the showboat he owned, anchored a few miles up the Hudson.

He wanted to get a good look at the showboat bouncer who had so suddenly become literary.

The only thing that worries me about giving you the gambling concession on my showboat is the possibility of police raids.

The boat operated between a small jetty on the shore and the famous showboat anchored far out in the river.

The showboat itself was still almost invisible, a vague blot on the dark water.

He made his way quietly toward the bow of the showboat, where things seemed to be darker.