Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vincent Astor's sleek white Nourmahal. After his twelve-day fishing trip he was tanned, cheerful, energetic, quite out of touch with affairs of State. "I haven't really seen a newspaper since I left, except the Nassau paper yesterday,"* he told reporters who crowded aboard the yacht to greet him. After dinner the President-elect got into an open automobile with Miami's Mayor Gauthier and drove to Bay Front Park where some 20,000 cheering Floridians and visitors were gathered to see and hear him before he entrained for New York...
Fire destroyed the 28-room mansion of Joseph Edmund Sterrett, partner in Price, Waterhouse & Co. (accountants), Dawes Plan expert, at Redding Ridge, Conn. Built in 1911 for the late William Luttgen, Morgan partner and commodore of the New York Yacht Club, the estate contains a chain of ponds through which the old commodore used to toot proudly but briefly in a miniature steam yacht...
...greatest musician in the world, what of it?" He reads very light novels, likes duckshooting, plays his own rules at contract with a stern righteousness and no little success. While working he smokes endless cigarets, whistles most of the time. Once on the coast of Alaska his 110-ft. yacht was boarded by revenue agents who seized his stock of rye whiskey and champagne. General Atterbury fumed...
...Master of Fox Hounds. After the death of Cleveland's Myron Timothy Herrick, Frederick Henry Prince was mentioned for Ambassador to France but New Jersey's plump, influential Senator Edge beat him to it. Other interests of Businessman Prince are his big America's Cup yacht Weetamoe and the swank Myopia Country Club which he and his friends founded, taking the name from the fact that most of them were nearsighted...
Susanne was a baker's daughter and she had a hard time at home. She was almost fed up enough to run away when young Otto Hellenberg, son of a rich ship tycoon, invited her to a party on his father's yacht, let her make herself ridiculous, tried to seduce her. That settled it: she left town the same night. Susanne had a good head on pretty shoulders and she had enough money to keep out of the gutter. As entire domestic staff for the household of a Chief of Police she got along beautifully till...