Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local steamer Tobago, drove out to Government House. There after a few swizzles of excellent Trinidad rum, they shook their heads in private over Mrs. Simpson's triumph, ate a highly seasoned luncheon, motored for 25 miles through the countryside before the Indianapolis was ready to sail...
...Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, drove last week at great speed through night and fog to Portsmouth, intending to embark on the Admiralty Yacht. At the last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria, he established himself high on a crag...
...grandstand to the outfield, installing a toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first of Manhattan's now numerous indoor department-store ski slides-chartered the S. S. Paris as a "snowboat." Advertisements said it would sail Jan. 16, with a ski-slide on deck, to get skiers to St. Moritz in ten days. Skiing down the side of a skyscraper is unpractical, but John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Radio City did the next best thing by announcing that it would swamp the sunken plaza, which is a tourist...
Newhaven: Just as the cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which...
...last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour of Europe starting with a six-day stop at Antwerp...