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...rain on a northward migration (to a point off New York) of the eastern high pressure area, known to weathermen as the "Bermuda high," that usually lies off the Carolinas. That brought southeast winds, dripping with moisture picked up from the hot Gulf Stream and the Caribbean. Annoyed with vagrant Bermuda highs, the New York Times decided that they are "an invention of the devil and should be abolished." But the devil was still at it-keeping green the memory of a long-departed saint...
...Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down any vagrant thought. Her voting address was the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park; her home, a third floor suite of the White House...
Oops. In San Jose, Calif., a vagrant in court recovered when Judge Percy O'Connor himself recovered, corrected his ringing "Thirty years!" to "Thirty days...
Harold had only a "vagrant ambition" to be a carpenter, and rebelled against the "ghastly fate" of maternal direction. By the age of 16 he had read "almost 1,500 books," including Prescott's history of the U.S. and the Bible. Most impressive work, he found, was called Immersion v. Sprinkling, "because it was passionately controversial." From being a devout Calvinist, young Harold rebelliously turned away from "formal religion," accepted the Sermon on the Mount as "good enough...
Harold S. Vanderbilt turned over to Navy Relief $300,000 paid him by the U.S. for his 117-foot yacht Vagrant, now serving in the Navy...