Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard the Dolphin toward Leghorn, Italy...
Meanwhile a special train hummed northward through the night from Rome. It carried Premier Mussolini, a box of orchids, and many an aid and minion. Soon the Italian naval yacht Giuliana steamed from Leghorn with Il Duce aboard toward the Dolphin...
...statesmen retired below, conferred for two hours. Finally they emerged, shook hands again, and all present embarked upon a tender for the Premier's yacht. There luncheon was served. There the statesmen conferred again. Some thousands of cheering Italians who lined the shore and spied upon the Dolphin and the Giuliana wondered, as did many a newsgatherer, just what the Premier and the Foreign Secretary said to each other. Straining their ears they heard distinctly "God Save the King" rendered by the Giuliana'a band...
...Austen Chamberlain himself furnished the only verbatim report of anything which passed between the two statesmen. Said he: "I said to Premier Mussolini: 'You should follow my example and take a long rest aboard a yacht. That is the only way to attain true tranquillity...
...through the summer the good yacht Mayflower had waited for the return of her master. Last week he came back-and with Mrs. Coolidge and a dozen guests, they sailed down the Potomac River. Among those on board were: Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; Richard V. Oulahan, distinguished chief of the New York Times staff in Washington, and Mrs. Oulahan; William Hard, free lance journalist, and Mrs. Hard; Mrs. Sheppard, wife of Senator Sheppard of Texas...