Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When William Kissam Vanderbilt sailed on his yacht Ara, a fortnight ago, on his first cruise around the world, he left behind a yacht-building orgy. More and bigger yachts are now being designed and built for U. S. tycoons than ever before. Herewith, the list with name of tycoon, cost of yacht, architect, builder...
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand...
...made it clear that equine amusements were the most suitable for the well-bred. Nero's horses ran at Rome and, last week, a coach was pulled around the arena, in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, by four horses which belonged to Mrs. Frederic Cameron Church, once Muriel Vanderbilt. Three other coaches also rolled around the ring; and the best was judged to be one entered by James Franceschini, a onetime day laborer, out of Toronto...
...Georgia Tech, which beat Notre Dame, beat Vanderbilt...
Died. Noel Morris, 24, direct descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaüser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata...