Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jock McLean, playful son of famed, diamond-shingled Evalyn, enlivened formal affairs in starchy Newport with his dinner jacket, a solid scarlet even to the buttons...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
...first big ocean race in eight years. The sailors, mostly salty socialites, sweated in Newport's Brenton Cove to get their 34 yachts ready. A few first-timers got jitters; in the past a boat or two had sunk on the 635-mile thrash to Bermuda...
...average citizen didn't seem to care much, one way or another, about all these manifestations, just so he went somewhere. By last week-after months of frantic scheming-millions were vacationing. Long-shuttered estates of the rich were being reopened at Southampton, Easthampton and Newport. New England resorts and beach hotels from Bar Harbor to Sea Island were awash with guests. Most desk clerks were not discussing reservations-except for the summer...
...World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...