Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...
Senator & Mrs. Guglielmo Marconi on his yacht Electra anchored off Civitavecchia, Italy, talked via wireless telephone with President Karl August Bickel of the United Press, President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America, and President M. H. Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co., all in Manhattan. The conversation was broadcast. After Senator Marconi had expressed confidence in trans-Atlantic telephone television, international broadcasting and had commented on the new radio station abuilding at Vatican city (TIME, April 21), said Dona Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scala Marconi to President Sarnoff: "Have you heard the news...
...powered glider, which, with its 2-cylinder 30 h. p. motor, had flown from Cincinnati to New York at $9.60 fuel cost (TIME, April 21). Other comparatively new features were likewise to be found among small craft: the Sikorsky S-39 four-passenger sport amphibian; the Eastman small flying yacht; the Whittelsey flying boat; three two-place craft. Huntington Governor, the Continental Sport, and the Engineer Aircraft Corp.'s The Engineer, the latter capable of storage with wings folded in a garage...
...when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...
...salt law is broken!" screamed the marchers. "The Government is dead!" But on the verandah of the Royal Yacht Club, Englishmen and Englishwomen imperturbably continued to take...