Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court, Socialite Francis Ormond French, onetime Boston insurance agent, who last year embarrassed his son-in-law John Jacob Astor 3rd by writing about his life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...
...less shrewdly spent $15,000 for 60 campaign books which he had then "scattered all over Texas and Oklahoma among my friends and relatives." Said unhappy Broker Young, whose presence in Washington had forced his wife to curtail plans for a huge dinner dance in their Newport, R. I. country house: "I would have taken soap wrappers if they had been offered...
Three years ago the America's Cup yacht races off Newport ended with much public confusion over the various fouls, protests and rulings and British Skipper Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith swore he would never race U. S. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt again. Last week's concluding pair of the four successive British defeats in the 1937 America's Cup series found all hands publicly cheering each other but Skipper Sopwith a little groggy from the spectacular quality of his beating...
...except for one fact. So many people think they want to see the America's Cup races that almost no one does. Last week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly out of sight of most of this huge de luxe flotilla, which was policed far off the course, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger was racing Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour for the hideous 86-year-old silver pitcher which is the most prized sporting...
...overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...