Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy. Engineers have long tried to make fuel savings offset weight, size and cost, but noticeable success was achieved only in Germany, where Diesels light enough to power the Hindenburg were developed. Last week, however, famed Engineer Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, who has long experimented with Diesels on his yacht, revealed that he too has found success. In Detroit, General Motors Corp., of which Boss Kettering is the inventive spark plug, opened the first factory in the U. S. for the mass production of light Diesel engines...
...certainly was a satisfaction to pick up the current copy of TIME [Jan. 10] and get the real story of that chap who went haywire out on the coast on a borrowed yacht...
...mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
Married. Meyer Robert Guggenheim, 53, baldish, four-time-wedded member of the copper-operating dynasty; to Rebecca Pollard Van Lennep, 34, pretty divorcee of less than a week; aboard his yacht, Firenze, moored at Miami Beach...
...later, shows how right she was. Kay, who wanted to be a novelist, is a journalist and hates it. Robin (Christopher Quest) is a no-account. Madge (Joan Henley), who dreamed of reforming the world, is an embittered schoolteacher. Hazel (Hazel Terry), who wanted a handsome husband with a yacht, has only a husband. Little Carol (Mary Jones), who loved life so passionately, is dead. Mrs. Conway (Dame Sybil Thorndike) is aging gracelessly. And so it goes. Only Alan (Godfrey Kenton) is contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes...