Word: hussar
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...last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts, roughly...
...oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his fiancee, Crown Princess Juliana, and her mother the Queen proudly watched...
...Hutton owns more than 500,000 shares, each of which pays her $1.80 in dividends annually. Her dapper, stockbroking husband was rich in his own right but many of the Huttons' Sunday-supplemented goods & chattels belonged to Mrs. Hutton. Since her divorce Mrs. Hutton has re-christened her Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, the Sea Cloud...
...compensations. Mr. Hutton's slave quarters in Palm Beach might be called a model cabin. His 16,000-acre patch in South Carolina is sufficient to supply potatoes and greens for a slave family of normal appetite, besides an occasional 'possum, and the Hutton slave ship, the Hussar, the largest sailing yacht in the world, offers a pleasant escape from the driving lash of his masters, who pay no taxes and are therefor 100% free...
...Hutton, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Hutton cut down on their more spectacular extravagances. Not mentioned so frequently in Sunday supplements were their Long Island estate, their Adirondack retreat, their 16,000-acre preserve in South Carolina, their Manhattan penthouse or their Palm Beach home. Mr. Hutton, who maintained the Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment. His wife, broadening her philanthropies to include the Marjorie Post Hutton Food Station for Women & Children, was referred to in Manhattan newspapers as "Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen...