Word: coves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailboats of all sizes raced at Glen Cove, L. I., in the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club. The tallest, slimmest and most famous of them all, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie, always sails against the Resolute and often wins. This time it won but was disqualified for failing to cross the starting line properly. At Southport, Conn., Princeton beat Yale and Harvard in a race of eight-metre boats...
...Bill passed the House, a $10,000,000 Government power corporation was set up. Any power left over after nitrate-making may be sold to the neighboring South at cost. Also, a new $25,000,000 dam was provided, 200 miles upstream from Muscle Shoals on Cove Creek in Tennessee...
Lake Forest, Ill., is the Newport, the Pass Christian, the Sewickley, the Pasadena, the Chevy Chase, the Brookline. the Glen Cove, the Haverford, of the Midwest. The socially-eligible, serious-minded Mayor of Lake Forest is Albert B. Dick Jr., whose father makes mimeograph machines and whose alarming younger brother writes poetry. Lately, Mayor Dick had a problem to solve...
Across to Singapore. Two seagoing sons of Jeremiah Shore of Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land...
Died. Francis Lyman Hine, 76, capitalist, banker ($50,000,000), onetime (1909-22) president of the First National Bank of New York, since then chairman of the executive committee; at Glen Cove, L. L; of heart disease and pneumonia...