Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...active members, there being about 40 others who still belong from past years, use the boats and facilities of the Community Boat Club and sail in the Charles River Basin. Membership to the Boat Club being rather costly, the Harvard Yacht Club owns three tickets, which members must take with them when they want to sail...
Walter Pidgeon, an architect, uses his pleasure yacht to rescue soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, while his wife, Greer Garson, whose worries heretofore consisted in choosing her latest fall hat, is accosted by a wounded Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husbank under the rain of Nazi pilot in her own backyard. Her natural reactions to this terrifying experience are not sacrificed in an artificial attempt to be melodramatic. With thoughts of her husband under the rain...
White Cloud, a 60-ft. cutter owned by Detroit's Charles E. Sorensen: the 35th annual Chicago-to-Mackinac yacht race, world's longest fresh-water race; in her first try; outsailing 24 other Class A cruising entries and finishing eleven hours ahead of her nearest rival. A recent refugee from East Coast racing, White Cloud made the 331 miles (steamer route) in 38 hr. 14 min. 5 sec., fastest time since 1911. Absent from the helm was Owner Sorensen, Ford's production chief, too busy to take three days off even for his favorite pastime...
...mild-mannered tycoon explained that all this was ludicrously false. Even before Mexico got his yacht, he had stopped using it-because "if I took it out people would say I was fueling U-boats...
...while the Mountbattens were visiting the U.S., beauteous Lady Louis publicly danced the Charleston with Fred Astaire. Soon afterward, London was given to understand that Queen Mary disapproved of dancing with cinema actors, and Lord Louis was blackballed from the sacrosanct Royal Yacht Squadron...