Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailboats of all sizes raced at Glen Cove, L. I., in the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club. The tallest, slimmest and most famous of them all, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie, always sails against the Resolute and often wins. This time it won but was disqualified for failing to cross the starting line properly. At Southport, Conn., Princeton beat Yale and Harvard in a race of eight-metre boats...
...Steam Yacht ready for launching" said the telegram received in Cincinnati by Julius Fleishmann, yeast heir. It meant that his twin-screw, clipper stem, Diesel yacht, with its accommodations for 14 guests, its lockers holding food enough for eight months at sea, its living room, smoking room, dining room, its owner's private gymnasium, lounge room, and dressing room, its cold storage plant, its shining mahogany and brass, was standing at the head of a slide in Manhattan, worth $625,000. Mrs. Fleishmann christened...
...with George Oliver May, wealthy Manhattan accountant, last week gave a trophy and prizes for the first intercollegiate yacht race. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, in Norwegian eight-metre yachts, borrowed from the Pequot Yacht Club, raced a 6.9 mile course off Southport, Conn. Princeton's boat won the cup; each member of the crew a silver ashtray...
...misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife . . . lost when the Yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British Steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor...
...daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht, causes her fiance to appear in his true colors and marries her with affectionate alacrity in the last...