Word: imp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hudson's Bay Imp. Mixture 1.95 Prince Albert...
...President for the first time since taking office visited the Washington Navy Yard. He was saluted with 21 guns, boarded the presidential barge, was ferried out into the Potomac near Haines Point, received another salute, boarded the revenue cutter Apache. Leaning over the rail he watched intently while Imp II, driven by Financier Richard Farnsworth Hoyt of Manhattan, won the President's cup for motorboats. The Pres- ident then accepted another salute, was ferried ashore and motored?reversing a decision of the week prior?the 100-odd miles away from Washington's heat and humidity to his Rapidan camp...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
After the race the Imp and her three competitors were shipped to Detroit for a four-day regatta which includes the unrestricted British-U. S. race for the Harmsworth trophy...
...Perhaps you play poker in your spare time?" asked a news imp. Still unruffled, the Agent General answered, "There's not much of that in Berlin now, but I do manage to get sufficient relaxation...