Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acre estate near smart Prides Crossing. Since the Depression he has emerged from "Princemere" (where champagne is always served for lunch, tea and dinner), to buy at bargain levels the big yacht Weetamoe and Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's $2,000,000 "Marble Palace" at Newport, and to sponsor the famed Prince plan for consolidating all U. S. railroads into seven systems. His favorite occasion for making news is on returning from his Paris home or his estate in Pau where he is still Master of Fox Hounds. Early this year he gave ship reporters a blast...
Adams House will become temporarily a cabaret on the night of Friday, December fifteenth, for the Adams House Christmas Dinner-Dance. Jacques Mar-Iowa and his Newport Casino Orchestra will provide the music for the dance and will also play during the dinner when they will wander in small groups among the tables. Both the orchestra and the attendants will be dressed to costumes for the gala occasion. Dancing will be from 8.30 to 2 o'clock...
...smoky blacksmith shop of Hugh McMahan at Newport, Tenn. last week, a young New Yorker named Don Cahill was discussing the NRA. Blacksmith McMahan was an NRA man. Cahill was not. Resenting the city man's talk, the patriotic blacksmith let his temper get the better of him. He picked up one of his tools and flung it at Cahill. Cahill flung back. The blacksmith flung another, Cahill returned it, and Blacksmith McMahan drew his gun shot Cahill dead...
...father, Yacht Designer Henry Newton Whittelsey. Miss Whittelsey has won the Adams cup four times but even if it really represented the women's national sailing championship it could scarcely be considered her greatest achievement as a skipper. In 1931 she skippered a 58-ft. sloop on the Newport to Vineyard Haven run of the New York Yacht Club's cruise. Last year she captained a crew of three men and won the interclub championship on Long Island Sound. In the summer she sails in overalls. In the winter she races regularly with the "frostbite" fleet...
...were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before, had kissed her President-son goodby. ''Sistie's" grandmother, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, was at that moment motoring toward Newport with Col. Louis McHenry Howe...