Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CONVENTION ! With what complete sway it rules us! How inexorable its mandates I refer to the footnote on p. 20 of TIME, Feb. 22. It, in turn, refers to a man who spends most of his time on his yacht, at sea...
When this man of eminence found that life at sea served his personal and business aims best, he had a yacht especially constructed for his purposes. (It is not unlike all other yachts except in the matter of strength, reserve engines, large fuel and water-storage facilities, and provides a comfortable, humane habitation for all on board, inclusive even of the sailors. No, there are no "padded decks...
TIME commented as follows re E. W. Scripps: "He founded the Scripps-McRae syndicate of 28 newspapers. Aged 71, he is a hermit-millionaire, a sea hermit (like the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore...
During the first Mrs. Harrison's lifetime, her niece, Mrs. Dimmick (Mary Scott Lord), the widow of a lawyer who had died at sea of typhoid on their honeymoon some ten years before, stayed at the White House with her aunt and the President for some two years...
...past prestige. But more than all he must weather the shoals of thought into which the winds of mere courtesy to the world outside continually force him. Last of all, his crew of youngsters, critical and monotonous, helps little to make life a pleasant voyage on a happy sea. But he likes it! The critics from the market place do not half appreciate his idiocy. It is colossal...