Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aprons to be worn under ladies' dresses past U. S. customs officers. Each apron has five pockets, holds five pints. Brother Eldon Trimingham out of hours is a leading Bermuda socialite and yachtsman, was urged by Bermudians as skipper for Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. In yacht races when Brother Eldon holds the wheel, Brother Kenneth tends the sheet. Smartest town is Tucker's Town, five miles away. Here is the expensive, exclusive Mid-Ocean Club, with the best golf course in the islands. Here are the "cottages" of U. S. tycoons. Largest private house...
Employment at summer camps, hotels, yacht-clubs, and as tutor-companions, have been the four main fields in recent years, Sharpe states. But in each case the general economic condition has made student-employment difficult. For this reason the bureau has sent out twice as many announcements as customary, 600 to hotels, 400 to camps, 400 to families who have used tutor-companions in the past, and 50 to yacht-clubs and country-clubs...
...across the street from Cuba's presidential palace, time to tennis, golf and swim at La Playa de Marianoa ("Cuba's Monte Carlo"), finally time to go down and see "Cuba's Mussolini," President Gerardo Machado y Morales, who has just locked 1,000 smart, socialite, yacht-owning Cubans out of their own Havana Yacht Club because a potent member of the Dictator's cabinet was "snubbed" by a minor member of El Club...
Only last week did this deal receive its official confirmation. Kermit Roosevelt, John M. Franklin and Basil Harris became vice presidents of I. M. M., while all three and lanky, yacht-fond Vincent Astor were made directors, marking the passing of control to the Roosevelt interests. Still president of I. M. M. is Philip Albright Small Franklin, probably pleased to have his company controlled by his son and friends...
Elected. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Manhattan lawyer; to be commodore of the New York Yacht Club, succeeding Vincent Astor. Other officers: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., vice commodore: William Adams Walker Stewart, rear commodore. Mr. Aldrich was head of the syndicate which owned the Enterprise, winner of America...