Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lambert who weighed...
...have reduced to 210. He would have been impudent if he had smiled at the late William Howard Taft who weighed 340 lb. while in the White House, later got down to 250. The Ringling Circus giantess Ima Whale weighs 630 lb. Heaviest monster in history was Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 lb., died in England in 1809. A monster less cheerful than Carnera is Mathias Sticz, 506 lb., who tried to kill himself at Budapest...
...first day's run was Weetamoe, which Frederick H. Prince of Boston had purchased from the members of the Weetamoe Syndicate and which had won three races the week before the cruise. Riding near was Resolute, which defended the America's Cup in 1920, and Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie, Resolute's rival in the 1920 trials. There were half a dozen Class M sloops-Walter Keith Shaw's Andiamo, sluggish in races the week before the cruise till her captain removed from her keel 100 ft. of lobster line and two lobster pots; Harold...
Observers noted that though the racing fleet was as numerous as usual the accompanying fleet was smaller than it has been for 30 years. A few big auxiliaries-Cornelius Crane's Illyria, Gerard Lambert's three-master Atlantic, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Michabo-were ready to follow the races, but of the customary squadron of large steam yachts there were only two: Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro and George Fisher Baker's Viking. On board the Viking, because his own flagship Valiant was too small. Commodore Aldrich held a meeting of all captains...
...From Lambert Co. came no word whether or not Eggs v. Listerine would bring a halt to Listerine v. Eggs...