Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ferns grow head-high and the epochs-old windfalls of trees are 50 feet high and as solid as a stone fort. Once they went salmon fishing-a pure public-relations gesture from Honest Harold, who loathes the water and once grumbled at riding on the President's yacht Potomac with a crack: "I'm willing to die for the President but I'll be damned if I get seasick...
...Aboard a yacht in Mobile Bay, Alabama's Adjutant General Ben M. Smith was presented to blue-eyed, blonde Evie Robert, wife of Contractor "Chip" Robert, former New Deal favorite. Courtly General Smith bowed low, took a step backward, prat-fell into the harbor...
...heavy all day over the far reaches of Penobscot Bay, had gradually lifted and faded; about 3 o'clock the watchers saw the top-heavy, bulging, comfortable Presidential yacht coming around the breakwater, could see beyond it the escorting Coast Guard cutter Calypso, sleek, dangerous, moving like a loafing shark...
Both men disappeared. The President went off on his yacht Potomac with Commander of the Atlantic Fleet Admiral Ernest King. The Potomac promptly began sending out meaningless, innocent, provocative communiques. The Prime Minister simply vanished. From London also vanished Franklin Roosevelt's Man Friday, Harry Hopkins. No longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer...
...Cinemactress Anna Neagle headed home for London, agreed that "Hollywood has forgotten about the world." ≤≤ For $1 a year Vincent Astor turned over to the Coast Guard his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal, made famous by many a Roosevelt fishing cruise. An earlier Nourmahal, sold by Astor in the mid-'20s, burned last March off Halifax, ≤≤ Bea Lillie gave a benefit performance in food-rationed England, was awarded 24 tomatoes, 14 eggs and six heads of lettuce-not thrown, but delivered, ≤≤ Private "Bummy" Davis, beaten to a pudding by Welterweight Champ Fritzie Zivic...