Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One voice questioned whether Ethiopia had really been freed. Said Lord Davies carefully: "The agreement . . . strikes some as a hard bargain. ... So long as Abyssinia is bound down by some of the clauses, it cannot be described as free and independent."
For $1 a year, the U.S. Navy had chartered as handsome a yacht as there is in the world. The square-rigged auxiliary barkentine Sea Cloud, in time of peace, supplied Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies with the kind of transportation they liked best. Last week, at a Baltimore dock...
When the Sea Cloud was built at Kiel in 1931, at a cost variously estimated at $1,000,000 to $3,500,000, she was known as the Hussar; Mrs. Davies was then Mrs. Edward F. Hutton. When Mrs. Hutton changed her name to Davies, she changed Hussar to Sea...
There were bathrooms of pink marble with gold-plated washbasins; bedrooms done in beige and peach with four-posters decorated with petit-point insets. The smoking room sported a collection of trophies, including the stuffed heads of rhinos and antelopes, and a couple of completely stuffed turtles. A brace of...
Not for two years has the Sea Cloud put to sea. On her last voyage, she brought Mr. Davies (then Ambassador to Belgium) and his wife home from Antwerp. Before that, when Mr. Davies was Ambassador to Russia, the yacht was moored in Leningrad's harbor. Before he took...