Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought Julius Fleischmann's 225-ft. yacht Camargo, renamed it Ramfis for his small brown son, announced a private pleasure trip to the New York World's Fair-via Washington. This squeeze play soon brought forth almost all the invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops...
Some 30 years ago sleek, bandboxical "Dapper Don" Collins began looting telephone boxes, soon graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...
...chronicle-somewhat humorless, written in upstairs rather than backstairs English-of abuse, exploitation, wretched servants' quarters, meals on leftovers, petty impositions, large-scale cheating. (Young Mr. Carter, a febrile, Napo-Iconic financier, was the most egregious character of the lot: though he was rich enough to keep a yacht, he diddled the Goritzins out of $1,200 in wages and loans...
Among the more unusual professions selected are: psychiatry, restaurant managing, promotion, vocal aptitude testing, aviation, lithography, yacht building, exporting, neuro-surgery, and planning. One man has elected to follow the tortuous path of chiropody...
Messrs. Starling & Summerlin caused the channel leading in to the wharf at Mount Vernon to be dragged for possible obstructions when the yacht Potomac takes the King there to pay homage to George Washington. Secret Service men combed the length of Pennsylvania Avenue, interviewing shopkeepers and householders along the line of the arriving procession, and 50,000 soldiers, sailors, marines, Washington police and firemen were told off to wall the streets. The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington...