Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Star boats-there are 940 of them, in 68 fleets in 28 countries, at least one fleet on every continent-are the largest class of one-design racing yachts in the world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet...
First issue of D S preserves a careful balance between business and frivolity. Cover design, by Truck Driver Otto Ernst, is a chaste night scene in water color showing impressive snow plows and soldierly men clearing the drifts from around Washington Arch...
...Design For Living, which some spectators may find a bit decadent in spots, is a worthy successor to, if not an entertaining equal of, the playwright's previous Private Lives. Its deficiency is in the kind of hysterical laughter which in Private Lives fairly convulsed the gravest sophisticate and exalted Noel Coward to the front rank of fun-makers...
...plays and musicomedies since 1920. One out of three have been huge successes. At one time he had five of his works running in London during a single season, a record equaled only by the late Edgar Wallace. A few blocks away from the Manhattan theatre housing his Design For Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade, his episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version...
...mentally planned Hay Fever that he wrote it during a house-party weekend. Private Lives was the product of a week's flu-confinement in a Hong Kong hotel. The record is sagging. It took months of voyaging in South American waters for him to jot down Design For Living...