Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both series-Cuba Cup for star boat skippers who finished first or second in their fleet the year before, Bacardi Cup for all star boat skippers who feel like entering-are decided by points, after three races. Somehow or other, Cuban yachtsmen who have the advantage of sailing on home waters seldom acquire many points. U. S. skippers-Adrian Iselin II, Paul and Cornelius Shields, Harkness Edwards, a jolly Pittsburgher who won the Cuba Cup last year, Edwin, Jahncke, son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Jahncke-were well in front last week by the time the boats started...
...Peyster, but bashful Hugh had done nothing about it beyond carving the Sea Witch's figurehead into a portrait of her. Roger had popped the question, got the answer. Hugh's brothers saved his life on the outward voyage but were not able to help him otherwise; somehow he survived, became a good ship's carpenter...
...body: these details, however damning in the eyes of Joy Street matrons, would not under normal circumstances, interpose any real obstacle to the success of the plan. Should the "new economy," however, fall heir to any of the ills of the flesh, and wander off some day, imagining itself somehow a modern Casanova, the results would be most painful...
...cotton planter named Murray Forbes Smith at Mobile, was born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...Manhattan's lower East Side works Professor Park. For 38 years he has been a great Name in immunology. His New York Board of Health vaccines and serums are esteemed throughout the world. New York University medical students have learned bacteriology & hygiene from him since 1897. But somehow the man's personality has escaped the record...