Word: sailboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a Captain Leslie Waggett last week and saw something pink fluttering over the water about three miles off the Jaimanitas Yacht Club. It was a light summer dress tied to an oar and the oar was held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...
Calvin Coolidge asking for a message, explaining his reply would cost nothing. His reply (full text): "Greetings." Alain Gerbault, oldtime French tennis star who three years ago completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean...
...passerby on the Boston Yacht Club pier at Marblehead, Mass, saw a man hanging head-down from the deck of a moored sailboat, his head & shoulders under water, his feet tangled in rigging, his body wedged between boat and pier. At a hospital, where he was given a fighting chance to live, the man was discovered to be Charles Brandon Booth. 40, a regional director of the Big Brother & Big Sister Federation, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America...
...Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...