Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties was the 20-year-old Duke of Kent, Queen Elizabeth's first cousin and the seventh in line to Britain's throne. Wherever young Kent went-and his evenings were invariably full-the action was brisk. One party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish two debonair young Guards officers out of the muddy waters of the Thames. Another reached its climax when some of the duke's young friends decided to scale a perilous parapet and sprinkle innocent passers...
...husband (see BUSINESS), and Norah moodily canceled her party. "How could they do it?" she said of her husband's employers, a question that echoed the sentiments of many a party girl toward Britain's spoilsports. As Debutante Felicity Drew, guest of honor at the Thames yacht party put it: "Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, so it can't have been...
...Norah. There have been adoring pictures of Lady Docker playing marbles with factory workers, Lady Docker at a party given by one of London's most notorious criminals (Billy Hill), Lady Docker roguishly dancing the hornpipe for an audience of sheepish miners aboard the Dockers' 878-ton yacht Shemara. Although both are millionaires, the Dockers also made generous use of the expense account and position of Sir Bernard, chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., which produces everything from air rifles to $40,000 Daimler limousines. On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers...
Friday's competition at the Beverly Yacht Club put them in the third place slot where they remained after Saturday's trials. The competition will resume this morning--weather permitting. George Whitney and W. Davis Taylor of Marion, Mass., are currently leading...
...aristocracy viewed the events from the Charles River equivalent of a royal yacht. Passing from deck to deck amidst the ruins of a decayed knight-errantry, they exhorted and condemned at socially acceptable occasions...