Word: buzzard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great spinnaker, made the most startling run of the cruise and reached Marblehead more than an hour ahead of the rest. After a day's racing at Marblehead the weather was calm again; the fleet had itself towed through the canal at the base of Cape Cod to Buzzard's Bay. There was a fresh breeze for the last day of the cruise but it chopped, changed, and finally almost faded away while Weetamoe led the fleet home to Newport...
...sure he was efficient and trustworthy. Assured, she later gave him a railroad in Texas where, more neighborly but no less idiosyncratic than his mother, he owned the first motor car in the State, permitted the use of his railroad for scenes in early cinemas. (Now he lives on Buzzard's Bay, near New Bedford, Mass., in a high stone house enhanced by a private radio station and flying field. At his dock lies a fully geared oldtime whaling ship.) Hetty Green became the heroine of jokes, speeches, anecdotes and finally, after she died in 1916, of a play...