Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last weekend the President, with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee, visited the Norfolk Navy Yard. What they discussed as they sailed down the Potomac on the President's yacht only they knew, but it would have been strange had they not considered whether the question of selling destroyers should not be reopened...
...Anecdote of the week from the Southern Theatre was heard in London from the British officer who took care of Emperor Haile Selassie when he was in Alexandria last month on his way to rejoin his people. The officer took the black-fuzzed little Emperor to the former Italian Yacht Club to change into military regalia. This was accomplished in a lavatory, accompanied by a drink of confiscated Italian wine...
...Queen Mary." In the back seat sat the President, wearing a seersucker suit, doffing his battered Panama hat when the crowds in the street recognized him. A crowd of Government workers gathered around the gate of the Washington Naval Yard, where the U. S. S. Potomac, White House yacht, was tied up to the dock awaiting President and party; the crowd gave a stifled cheer; the President's big right hand went up in the air and the big smile flashed in recognition. There was the usual 21-gun salute barked from the shore batteries as the President crossed...
Married. Carole Landis (real name: Frances Ridste), 21, blonde cinemactress; and Yacht Broker Willis Hunt Jr., 28; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...