Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...established when he recently arrived on the Mauretania (TIME, June 17) he made no objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left early to board his huge black yacht, the Corsair, to go and inspect his new 343-foot yacht, abuilding at Bath, Maine...
...London, Conn., on the yacht-crowded Thames, Harvard and Yale had their annual race for two. As it had seemed she would, Yale won. Rowing a slow 30 strokes per minute, crossing the finish line six lengths ahead of Harvard, the men with blue tips on their oars did not pause to shake hands and take the Harvard men's shirts away from them, as is the custom, but kept rowing right on upstream and across to their boathouse and training quarters at Gales Ferry. When the Harvard oarsmen finally crossed the line they collapsed freely...
...strikingly handsome Banker Morgan had shifted to a more advantageous position on the deck. They praised the amiable Morgan disposition. They described the Morgan apparel (grey lounge suit, grey fedora). Finally, they related the general Morgan conversation, which was not on Reparations, but on his Mediterranean cruise aboard his yacht Corsair. Of his yachting guest, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Banker Morgan told the newsmen...
...Broadway. Newly opened and modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...
Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them...