Word: gimcracks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon of July 30, 1844, John C. Stevens, on his yacht Gimcrack in the New York harbor off the Battery, met a group of men including John C. Jay, George L. Schuyler, James M. Waterbury and founded the New York Yacht Club. Its first clubhouse nestled on Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Its present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships...
...conscientious property man, the col laborative efforts of his wife are everywhere evident, from "the tip of a pale blue ostrich plume" on p. 2 to some fan-shaped, green New England shutters on p. 408. The collection of cobblestones, sealskin sacques, decalcomanias, bustles, buggies, political platforms and gimcrack customs, all echoing to the tinkle of bicycle bells and chandeliers, is truly remarkable. In fact, it is so remarkable that the exhibitors' enthusiasm made them somewhat forget their narrative obligations. The ingenuous characters are gently regarded as being almost as odd today as were (allegedly) grapefruit and golf...