Word: rona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with him, but his wife got him away in time. A Manhattan actress, Ernestine took life a little too fast. When she thought she had had enough, she turned on the gas. Rona was making a good thing out of a stenographic agency, but left it for a temperamental writer. When he finally deserted her, she started another agency. Ida was a rawboned Middle-western farmer's daughter, a hard worker. She married a mean man. When childbirth killed her he wrote...
Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after...