Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge anticipated the end of his vacation season and began to go forth from his secluded island and mingle more with the people. He planned a morning ride all through the streets and ore docks of Duluth, Minnesota. He planned a trip on the yacht of H. L. Gary of Kansas City to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. He journeyed, taking Mrs. Coolidge and son John Coolidge with him, to Wausau, Wisconsin, for a state convention of the American Legion, where he clapped a red "overseas" cap on his head and made a speech praising the war-renouncing...
Frank Raichle is the law partner of Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General. He suffered bombardment when his innocent pleasure yacht was attacked, last month, by a Coast Guard Cutter (TIME, July...
...William K. Vanderbilt (nee Anne Harriman), while cruising on her yacht last week, received a wireless message saying that her Paris house had been robbed. She prepared to return to the seat of the mystery. The Vanderbilt governess had discovered the lock of the servants' entrance forced open, when she arrived at the house early one morning. On the kitchen table were scattered miniatures with their valuable settings ripped off and a chain of room keys which belonged in a buffet drawer. Upstairs, in the bedrooms, furniture had been overturned and broken, closets and bureau drawers had been ransacked...
...heads of worldlings. It gives them an inexplicable grandeur, a constant vibration between excitement and ease, a strange language. Take, for example, the events at Santander, Spain, on the Bay of Biscay during the last three weeks. King Alfonso XIII went there to join his queen and children. Yachts and warships speckled the harbor. There were receptions in the Magdalena Palace, dances in the clubs, frolicking townsfolk and tourists everywhere. U. S. Ambassador Ogden H. Hammond came down from Madrid. There was a short yacht race; the Queen trounced the King, and the infantes Gonzalo and Jaime finished...
...another day His Majesty had an opportunity to climb aboard the Nina and say: "I am the King of Spain," to which young Elihu Root Jr. of Manhattan replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather...