Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
...Navy's great base across the river at Kittery, Me. the President saw three new submarines on the ways, two more keels laid down, more men (6,000) at work than were there during World War I. Awaiting the party was the President's yacht Potomac. At Nahant, Mass, they paused for the President's first look at his newest (tenth) grandchild, two-month-old Haven Roosevelt (who declined to smile for Father John and Grandfather Franklin). At Boston Navy Yard Mr. Roosevelt saw eight destroyers under construction. At the Watertown Arsenal there was the Army...
This distinguished new Governor did not reach Nassau last week, but he got part way to his post, landed at another British possession, Bermuda, from the U. S. ship Excalibur. A tiny admiral's barge brought the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to the landing of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club after an eight-day voyage across the glassy Atlantic from Lisbon. A naval band struck up God Save the King. An honor guard of sailors and volunteer rifles stiffened to attention. Bermuda's Governor Major General Sir Denis Kirwan Bernard strode forward to greet his onetime King with...
...long they will stay in Bermuda the Windsors said was "indefinite." The New York Sun said the $1,000,000 Astor yacht Nourmahal might take them to Nassau. The British liner Britannic took 15 more pieces of Windsor luggage to Manhattan last week, whence they will be shipped to Nassau, but the Duke was said to have had to abandon in France the bulk of his official luggage, trunkfuls of uniforms and cases of stars and orders...
...member of the Home Guard is Alan Patrick Herbert, 49, Member of Parliament and of the editorial board of Punch (funny weekly). Commanding his yacht Water Gipsy he helps patrol the Thames, boasts that all members of his crew are ready for instant action at all times. To prove this, during dinner on board one night, he barked: "Lady Astor overboard!" The steward put down a dish he was passing, plunged over the rail...