Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular Minister Biddle has been voted by tailors one of the "world's ten best-dressed men." He is well-liked by his neighbors in Philadelphia, Manhattan, Newport, Palm Beach and Paris, is expert in tennis, polo, golf, fencing, boxing. His business life has been less happy...
...Newport Waistlines...
After seeing your number 4 issue of March of Time, visualizing the naval maneuvers, I am wondering how smart the naval strategists at Newport are, or how dumb...
Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially...
Four days later they learned that the ketch Hamrah had dropped anchor at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Of her crew of six, three young New Englanders survived. They told how, eleven days out of Newport, her socialite owner and skipper, Robert R. Ames, had been washed overboard in a boiling mid-Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant...