Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams Bonynge, Manhattan lawyer, Harding appointee, charged last week that in 1915-16, when the U. S. and Germany were still at peace, the Imperial Government sent over secret agents who committed sabotage throughout the U. S., hired Negroes to infect horses with anthrax germs in New York City, Newport News (Va.), and Baltimore, hired other Negroes to touch off such mighty munitions explosions as New Jersey's famed Black Tom blast...
...onetime mayor of Fitchburg, manufacturer of machinery, banker, no kin to Calvin Coolidge, and Joseph B. Ely of Westfield for the governorship. The spectacle of a Wet Coolidge running against a Dry Butler in November piqued state interest. Nominee Coolidge, delighted, celebrated his victory by taking his family to Newport to see another Irishman lose another race...
Third Race. The sun was bright off Newport and a good breeze from Block Island (west southwest) turned the slow seas of the day before into a chop. There were about half as many yachts around the starting line as for the first two America's Cup races of 1930. People had been saying that Enterprise could not lose so long as Skipper Vanderbilt kept sail on her. The course signals were up and both boats jockeyed at the line like boxers feeling each other out. Now the first drama of the series occurred. Captain Heard on Shamrock V timed...
...Thomas had put the Erin about. A black tug had taken the disabled Shamrock in tow and started back to Newport. Sir Thomas was cracking jokes. They told him that one of his guests, Miss Eugenie Whitmore of Omaha, had gone down to her cabin to cry. When she reappeared Sir Thomas cracked a couple of jokes especially for her. He insisted that the race counted and said his boat would be ready to race again next...
...racetrack, several modern hotels, nightclubs, innumerable gambling places and speakeasies. Almost completely ignored by the thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze...