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Enterprise. In the famed Herreshoff Yards at Bristol, R. I., almost simultaneously with Shamrock V against which her backers hope she will race, workmen with a donkey engine gently lowered and launched the Enterprise, first and smallest of four yachts planned by rival U. S. syndicates to contend for the honor of defending America's cup. Awaiting Enterprise at City Island, N. Y., was "the biggest mast ever stepped into a sailing craft of any kind anywhere." Her backers: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Vincent Astor. George Fisher Baker Jr., Ogden Livingston Mills. E. Walter Clark, Floyd Leslie...
...master plotter and at the same time he added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps...
March 9-General election in Monaco, world's smallest principality...
...Lamoille County, Vt., were discovered Hiram Bogue and his seven sons. The smallest Bogue was six and a half feet tall, the biggest Bogue was Max Bogue, seven feet, two inches...
...classes and the beginning of the examination period. Even one day would be of considerable assistance to those who are burdened with a number of examinations coming in rapid succession. Either this, or the first day of the period should be reserved for those courses which have the smallest attendance...