Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time such policies as the purchase of boats, where and when to sail them and membership dues will be discussed and preliminary action will be taken. Up to the present the only action of this sort has been the formation of the Freshman Yacht Club...
Third biggest vessel in the world and oldest big liner afloat, Cunard White Star's Berengaria (launched as the German Imperator in 1912) last week sailed empty back to England on what may be her last Atlantic crossing-branded a fire hazard by the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Once last year the Berengaria caught fire during an overhaul. In Southampton last month flames blazed for two hours below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While...
Artist Marin's total disbelief in copying nature, on the ground that anyone would rather have a real ear of corn than a painted one, led him ten years ago to a kind of shorthand in which a triangle represented a sail, a jigging line the sea. In his recent work, extremes of this kind have given place to more effective economies: strokes of color and ragged whites which sometimes fail but more often succeed in bringing to life the "fighting" forces of wind, weight, water and light which he feels in landscape. Marin works over each picture with...
...Kennedy once declared that maritime labor conditions were so bad that he would never allow a member of his family to take a U. S. ship, but this coming week Mr. Kennedy will sail on the S. S. Manhattan (U. S. Lines) with his daughter, Kathleen, who will act as his hostess in the U. S. Embassy in London until his wife recovers from an appendectomy...
Easy, charming, Bond-Streetish, Lons dale frequently forgets things, frequently changes his mind. He will invite people to lunch, sail for Europe, remember on the boat, cable his guests to charge the lunch to him. He will cross the Atlantic to at tend rehearsals in Manhattan, suddenly take the first boat back. Once he embarked for the U. S. at Southampton, got off again at Cherbourg...