Word: houseboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis himself, his generosity, kindness. patience, keenness, humor. Recalled Mrs. Rinehart: "Only Bob himself knows how many writers he has made, nursing them over the bad places, encouraging, cheering, criticizing." Mr. Cobb observed: "Mr. B. Davis is getting pretty brittle," and described how Davis turned his ankle on the houseboat deck, fell, fracturing two bones in the right ankle, tore ligaments and muscular fabric of the left knee...
...when the houseboat Mayflower left Aswan, last week, keen eyed Egyptians saw that the solitaire diamond Princess Ileana accepted from "Lexel" still twinkled on H.R.H.'s engagement finger...
...away from his White House duties. After six days of mediocre fishing in the Gulf Stream off Long Key, Fla., President Hoover cut short his winter vacation and journeyed back to Washington. No Sunday fisherman, he did not want to waste an idle day aboard the houseboat Saunterer. Likewise he was impatient to get his hands back upon the London Naval Conference, where developments were not altogether to his liking. French demands had boosted auxiliary tonnage figures to such levels that the President could have read such press headlines as: HOPE FOR NAVY CUTS WANES POWERS FACE NAVY BUILDING RISE...
Before dawn the next morning the Hoover car was cut off at Long Key, a barren palm-studded island 80 miles south of Miami. The President and friends detrained, walked a sandy way to the wharf where lay in spick & span readiness the white seagoing houseboat Saunterer. Its owner, Manhattan Capitalist Jeremiah Milbank, eastern G. O. P. Treasurer during the 1928 campaign, greeted the President, turned the boat over to him, got off. The President's ensign, a blue flag with four white stars around the seal of the U. S., was .broken out, cameras clanked and clicked, President Hoover...