Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back, was carried into East Cowes hospital. Early that morning a motor boat belonging to Lady Hulton caught fire. Lady Hulton, Vice Admiral Francis Herbert Mitchell and a mechanic jumped for their lives, all badly burned. They were fished from the water by the crew of the Conqueror, steam yacht of the U. S.-born department storekeeper H. Gordon Selfridge...
...withdrew from the next day's racing and left the King's cup an easy prey for indefatigable Sir Thomas Lipton. He had won it once before, in 1908. This year he won it as a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron...
Cora Carhart Larkin's memory is vivid. Nevertheless, President Garfield's plan was to go by train to Jersey City, board a yacht, cruise up the Hudson, proceed by train two days later to Williamstown, thence go to Maine as the guest of James G. Blaine...
...named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane on his flagpole and the firescreen in his living room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear blimps were named for a yacht which has defended the America's Cup (Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Defender, Vigilant). President Litchfield frequently rides in the blimps, which sometimes land on his grounds, once picked him from the deck of a liner, once took him from trainside in the mountains of California. But he has never flown...
...went to Chicago, has been a pit trader since 1915. Neat, almost dainty in appearance (his hands and feet are tiny) he moves restlessly about the floor dressed usually in grey with a dark blue shirt. He has a country place near Chicago where he shoots pheasants, a yacht upon which he winters in Florida. Associates who see much of him but know little expect more Howell news before long. They suspect he also has some bears by the tail in cotton...