Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horse There occurred then in the darkness a scene as gruesome as a murder: the collier leaning her weight against the trembling sailboat rammed her against the army base pier which slices into the harbor like a knife. By the time the tugs pulled the heavy steamship away, the yacht which she had rammed was a tangle of wreckage which the waves pawed through a night of storm...
...King Fuad of Egypt steamed out in his serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...arch-Democratic New York World-perhaps as a matter of interest, perhaps as a sly play upon the superstitions of its readers -said: "Acceptance of the Frothingham residence as campaign headquarters was made on the same day that word was received that Mr. Frothingham had died suddenly on his yacht while cruising off the coast of Maine...
Died. Louis Adams Frothingham, 57, Representative from Massachusetts, onetime Harvard baseballer, Major in the U. S. Army, onetime (1909-11) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; of heart disease; on his yacht at North Haven...
...that the agent slipped the passport out the train window to a colleague on the platform. La Presse said that the colleague on the platform was the U. S. Consul at Nice. Also, La Presse related an episode where Blackmer was supposed to have been invited ("lured") to a yacht for tea, where he would have been seized by his "enemies" (the U. S. Government) but for the alertness of his personal sleuth...