Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party, it looks as if he might steal Vic's new girl (again Diana Lynn). In spite of Louis and Sydney and Lucille, who are all present, and in spite of all the flashbacks, the girl finds Horace strangely fascinating and she seems willing to elope on his yacht. However, vengeful melodrama comes to bat, wickedness receives its long-deferred reward, and the world is made safe for doormats of good will like...
...could not have picked a better week to get away from steamy Washington. Dressed in an old, beat-up pair of pants, an open-necked shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the most comfortable shoes he could find, the President lolled on the fantail of his big white yacht, the Williamsburg, and took his ease. When he was so minded, he shed the shirt and built...
...Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
...week's end, the President shucked off visitors and boarded his yacht, the Williamsburg for a leisurely nine-day cruise in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Truman finds in the Williamsburg one of the few places on earth where he can relax with his friends in privacy. If Harry Truman is sent back to Missouri next January, undoubtedly the thing he will miss most will be the yacht...
...After attending Columbia University, where he was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, he became a full-time playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried...