Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depraved but sunny personality, Roland Young orders his butler to get a captain for his yacht, says: "Get one who can dance the horn-pipe." Sly, peremptory and puzzled he makes love to his cook in a squeaky voice, smashes his possessions so constantly that when he falls into a stupor his servants put some chinaware beside him for him to break when he wakes up. Indignant at the captain, the drunkard orders four servants to throw him out, and mounts a chair, clapping his hands & popeyed with excitement, to see them do it. When he learns that his cook...
...house are eleven Frigidaires; electric buttons to open and close bedroom windows. On his yacht each stateroom has a dial telephone, a catalog of numbered phonograph records. The occupant can dial the number of a record, hear it played by radio. If the phonograph is busy, he may tune in on whatever is being played...
...quiet in business, rewarded justly and reprimanded mercilessly. He was an air enthusiast, held much stock in Fokker Aircraft Corp. before General Motors took control, also helped found Western Air Express which has likewise been aided by General Motors (TIME, March 16). He had a $150,000 "air yacht," also the seagoing Krupp-built Carissima. He gave big parties, was said to have been one of the semi-mythical "Big 10" bull market operators, was reputedly worth $20,000,000. He never turned bear, clung to Los Angeles real estate. The Richfield crash dazed him, ruined his health. Friends fondly...
That Capone's maximum annual income had not been found to exceed $260,000 (1925) was explained by the fact that the wily criminal conducts most of his business on a cash basis, used currency to purchase his $175,000 estate, $40,000 yacht...
...Conn., June 7--The Harvard crew enjoyed a brief vacation today when the whole squad were the guests of J. P. Morgan '89 on his yacht "Corsair." This annual treat marked a day of complete freedom for the rowers and was a welcome respite from the workouts the oarsmen have had since they came...