Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary of a "Georgian Legation" in Paris that neither Russian legitimists nor the Soviet government recognizes, and he put his sign manual to a paper, which, according to the Hearst Universal Service, gave him a settlement of $250,000 a year. Pleased Papa Franklyn Hutton gave the pair a yacht for a wedding present and they departed for a honeymoon in Venice, Biarritz and Barcelona before settling down to what Princess Barbara said would be "leisure...
...Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, to able Editor George Horace Lorimer. His newspapers, the Philadelphia Public Ledgers, Inquirer and New York Evening Post are run by Stepson-in-Law Martin. Publisher Curtis contented himself in recent years largely with sailing up & down the Atlantic Coast on his steam yacht Lyndonia, summering at his beloved Camden, Me., eating simple fare like baked beans and fish cakes. Once in a great while he would wander into the office of New York Evening Post, invariably stopping at the cigar stand in the lobby to buy a copy of his paper...
Following a traditional custom, 11 yachts in three different classes started from Scotch Caps, off Milton Point, in Rye, New York, last Wednesday evening, in the American Yacht Club's eighth annual overnight race to the scene of the festivities of the Harvard Yale rowing regatta in New London...
...shows a U. S. destroyer sinking a German submarine laden with $3,000,000 in gold in the South Seas during the War. Captain Schlemmer (Fredrik Vogeding) escapes with one shipmate, kills him on a desert island. Years later he ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows his stripe by trying to get all the gold for himself...
...Bennett's keenest appetites was for yachting. In his own (much overpublicized) yacht, the Velsa, a 55-ft. Dutch cutter with an auxiliary engine, a piano and an encyclopedia, with timbers that recalled the Constitution and "a cockpit in which Hardy might have kissed Nelson,'' he voyaged amiably on the Zuyder Zee, the Baltic and numerous friendly canals and English estuaries. During the War Bennett lent the Velsa to the Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn...