Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along at 40 m.p.h...
Bundled in sheepskins, mackinaws and fur-lined boots, owners and skippers assembled there last week with 40 racing boats. The ice was bumpy, the winds weak, but they cut their five-day program to two days and made the best of it. Boats are classified by sail areas. Smaller boats may race in classes for larger boats. Winner in Class A (350 sq. ft. of sail) was The Fritz, a $2,000 craft, holder of the trophy donated by William Randolph Hearst in 1904, owned by Fred Jungbluth of Madison, Wis., piloted by Carl Bernard. Its best speed over...
...must bear in mind," she continued, "That acting on the legitimate stage is every bit as serious work as writing a paper." As a matter of corroborative detail she recounted in experience she once had during a run in Chicago. At a cocktail party a dowager under full sail bore down on her, snorting, "How things have changed. A few years ago it was the theatre and we . . . . ." then swept on her stately way, leaving Miss Rawls to draw her own conclusions...
...more lyric than Prokofieff's early works have been credited with being, but less so than the composer's talk of curves had suggested. This week Prokofieff conducts the St. Louis Symphony. After a visit to Boston for whose Symphony he composed Symphony No. 4, he will sail for France...
Unabashed David Fingard prepared to sail for the U. S., where he counts on the backing and publicity of Publisher Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers...