Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calked. Such a leak meant nothing at all, insisted Captain Ben Pine. Boats built for work instead of pretty racing must show marks of their trade once in a while. Gertrude L. Thebaud was designed by Frank Paine, who turned out the America's Cup yacht Yankee...
...York for 1930-31, out last week, revealed that Harry Payne Whitney had dropped four clubs (St. Nicholas, Piping Rock, Jockey, Creek) since last year, joined two (Brook & Yale), leaving Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt III undisputed No. 1 New York clubman with 16 memberships- Racquet & Tennis, Union, N. Y. Yacht, Union League, Century, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf & Field. Engineers, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Automobile Club of America, Yale, Sleepy Hollow, Knickerbocker...
...District). Deprived of eyesight for several years by an accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home at Madeline Island, Lake Superior, where plies his yacht. In running his business he has one unusual method: when he finds a good man he immediately gives him a long-term contract, sometimes for as long as 25 years...
Edward F. Hutton, Wall street broker, drydocked his famed auxiliary schooner yacht Hussar II at Brooklyn, prepared to be yachtless until his new boat, a square-rigged four-master, largest pleasure sailing vessel in the world abuilding in Ger many, is completed next September. The new craft will be 322 ft. over all, a crew of 70 men will...
...been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white whale, Moby Dick, on the screen, set off at once for the island in his yacht, Infante, accompanied by his wife, baby and scientists...