Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...
...doubt of its existence while he is trying to get there. Bursting, blooming, up-at-seven physical condition is readily suggested by appearing on horseback, walking to the office, going swimming, playing golf. Fishing from a boat is good (but never be seen at the wheel of a yacht). Younger men have an advantage over sedentary types like Mr. Morrow, though his legend of mental activity (including detective stories) is well developed and Governor Roosevelt has demonstrated what can be done even after infantile paralysis...
...10?Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on a 6,000-ton yacht, with sightseeing inland by airplane...
Four years ago William Atkins, naval architect & designer, and Henry Dike Bixby, former commodore of Long Island's Huntington Yacht Club, founded Fore an' Aft, "class nautical magazine," as something of a hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest...
...sooner did the happy couple board the Bulgarian royal yacht Tsar Ferdinand at Brindisi than they were swept into a hurricane which cut them off from all communication for 24 hours, made it impossible for the chef to prepare a wedding banquet, later made them seek shelter in an island harbor...