Word: regattas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gabriele d'Annunzio: " Arriving at a regatta, I found that the committee in charge had provided me with an easy chair but had furnished straight backed chairs for the other guests. Regarding this as a reflection on my age, I hurled the chair bodily into the lake. Now, I discover that the chair was a borrowed antique. The committee must fish...
...Conn., June 6.--All the Crimson crews were given a stiff work-out on the Thames today in spite of the intense heat that was encountered. At a meeting of the chairmen of the regatta committees, coaches, captains and managers of the respective crews this afternoon, it was definitely decided to row the Freshman race at 9.45 o'clock and to start the second University a half hour later at 10.15 o'clock, Eastern standard time. Both of these races will be rowed upstream while the first University crews will row downstream at 6 o'clock in the evening...
...season to date has been far from encouraging. On May 5 the Crimson eight failed to come up to expectations and trailed the Navy and Princeton in the annual triangular regatta on Lake Carnegie. Then followed a period of intensive drill, during which several changes were made in seating order and the work of the crew as a whole was gone over carefully and different faults taken up in succession...
...first time since the war, King George will race his yacht Britannia at the annual Cowes regatta...
Invitation Regatta, Basin at 2.30 o'clock...