Word: club
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining rooms of the Club escaped with little damage as heavy fire walls, and double floors stood in the way of the flames. Slight damage was due to the clouds of smoke and steam that poured out of the upper windows, and discolored the walls. Two members temporarily trapped on the second floor, gesticulated appealingly to the crowd below with cries of "Help!" but it was correctly surmised by the spectators that the victims were beyond all possible assistance. Fortunately no casualties occurred. That the conflagration was conceived in some form of sin or sorrow, was the report of several...
Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., 49. of New Orleans, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The yachting instinct is now strong in the U. S. sea service, for, like Secretary Adams, Mr. Jahncke is a potent amateur sailor, commodore of the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, a member of the New York Yacht Club. In technical qualification for his post he operates one of the largest dry docks in the South; he is a civil and mechanical engineer, a naval architect. He directs large Louisiana banks, is a member of the International Olympic Games Committee. Mr. Jahncke...
...host, Albert Davis Lasker, onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, took him to the Jockey Club races. As everyone knows, Indian-blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz...
Cocolobo Bay Club, millionaire retreat on a Florida key. He met many Kansans at a reception given in his honor by S. B. Rohrer. old Topeka resident, now promoting real estate in Florida. He was the attraction that brought 300 men to another reception, at Harvey S. Firestone...
Smart international yachting folk who have sailed up the pine-fringed Kristiania Fjord to the capital of Norway, Oslo, will remember Castle Oskarshal. As they cast anchor off the Royal Yacht Club, in the wimpling Frognerkilen, they had Oslo on their starboard and suburban Bygdo, with its Castle Oskarshal, on their port...