Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When school lets out in June many a small boy is packed away to a summer camp where he is instructed in woodcraft, coached at baseball, taught to swim, dive, sail, paddle. Particularly attractive to small boys and their parents are camps run by celebrated college athletes. Sturdy footballers inspire parents with confidence, moppets with hero-worship. At the end of the summer, the small boys have had a good time and the athletes have made money. The camp business is pleasant, constructive, lucrative...
Attorney General Mitchell, No. 4. was delayed in getting away by the new program of .Prohibition enforcement transferred to his Department of Justice. Soon he will depart for White Bear Lake. Minn. to fish, sail, swim, shoot, tramp, play amateur cineman, shoot good golf...
...years (1797-1835) the overland wilderness route known as the Natchez Trace was the best but most dangerous road from New Orleans to the Midwest. Ol' Man Mississippi brought the cargoes down, but it was more than sail or paddle could do to get all the way upstream again. The gold went back in saddle bags over the narrow, bandit-infested trail stretching from Natchez, Miss, to Knoxville, Tenn...
...little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail...
Despatches announced that on Aug. 1 the Musical Art Quartet will sail, for Italy where they will play for the pleasure of U. S. Ambassador to Italy John Work Garrett and his wife, Alice Warder Garrett, famed for her parties in Rome, her love for & interest in the Cause of Art, her espousals of many a worthy "movement" (TIME, Aug. 12). At present summering in Baltimore the Garretts will return soon to Rome and ambassadorial duties. But first they will go to Capri where the Quartet's concerts are to be given; where a friend, Dr. Axle Munthe, has loaned...