Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...richest men in French Indo-China, M. Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which he has been a guest in order to marry her and help her change her life, M. Delaroch assumes a more active role. He blocks the Carey passports, lures Bill into the jungle, tries to teach Manon the virtues of passivity. But Manon, who has taken a good look...
...morning this week a ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard. It was captained by a famed racing yacht skipper, Paul Hammond, and among its crew were Harvard undergraduates, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow Jr. (see above) and the wife and eldest daughter of Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor Morison sat tall and erect in the bow, clutching a copy of Christopher Columbus' journal in one hand, a notepad and pencil in the other. The professor and his companions were setting out on a Harvard expedition to retrace part of Columbus...
...pastry chef in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. When even his yum-yum recipe for Streusselkuchen* failed to find him a post over the radio, Hans Rohrbeck went out and got himself a good job, is now serving up his Kuchen at Lake St. Clair's select Grosse Pointe Yacht Club...
From the sacred lawn of the Royal Yacht Squadron, most venerable and exclusive yacht club in the world, six generations of Britons have watched the zigzag tacks of yachting history. It was there in 1851 that the U. S. schooner America astonished British autocrats by winning the brand new One Hundred Guineas Cup, first international yachting trophy ever put up-which later became known as the America's Cup and caused Britons to spend some $30,000,000 trying to get it back. It was there that the late King George's magnificent Britannia raced every summer...
...Cowes is not only for aristocrats. By ferry and excursion steamer sporting England flocked to the Isle of Wight last week. What they came to see this year was the yachting duel between Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, Britain's No. 1 yachtsman, and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the American upstart who trounced him in U. S. waters in two challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy...