Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, the U.S. Navy had chartered as handsome a yacht as there is in the world. The square-rigged auxiliary barkentine Sea Cloud, in time of peace, supplied Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies with the kind of transportation they liked best. Last week, at a Baltimore dock, awed workmen were busy removing the Davies' doodads to prepare the Sea Cloud for service in the Coast Guard...
Enjoying a post-exam rest at a friend's home in Westport, Connecticut, Warner saw the pursuit plane plunge into the ocean not over a half-mile away. Without pausing for an instant, he rushed to a nearby yacht basin, found a rowboat and set out over the choppy waters of the Sound...
...that many British, both officers and men, had become a little hazy about the threat to their possessions and habits. The officers had fallen into a routine to which they considered themselves entitled: stengahs or gin slings at the Raffles, diversions at two cricket clubs, a swimming club, a yacht club, a golf club, purely social clubs like the exclusive Tanglin, a race course complete with the most modern of totalisators, leisurely perusals of the Straits Times, excursions, for mad dogs and Englishmen, into the noonday sun, naps late in the afternoon, pahit (cocktail) parties, must dress, late nights, good...
...training centers, which are supposed to turn out 10,500 salts a year, will have to do much better than that. Last week the Commission was busy refitting as training ships two 5,000-ton liners chartered from the Eastern Steamship Lines and a 115-ft. Diesel yacht donated by Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont. With these, the Commission has 18 training vessels in all, ranging from the square-rigged Joseph Conrad to the 10,000-ton Liberty ship American Mariner...
...Wilson (Scripps) Howard chartered his 110-ft. yacht Jamaroy to the Coast Guard for $1 a year, for the duration...