Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Southport, Conn., June 14--Princeton won the second of the triangular yacht races among the Tiger, Yale, and Harvard crews here this afternoon. Today's victory was the second straight for the Princeton crew and practically assures the Tiger sailors of first place in the series. The race was held on a ten and three-tenths mile course, with the three crews racing in eight meter boats owned by members of the Pequot Yacht Clug, of Southport, under whose auspices the series is being conducted...
...Conn., June 11,--After the weekend spent cruising on J. P. Morgan's yacht the "Cosair", the Crimson oarsmen started out upon the final ten days of practice for the Yale races this morning with a two mile drill on the down-stream course. The Thames was moderately calm, ruffled on the return trip by a rising southwest wind...
...Chrysler always looks a trifle amazed. He has a home on Long Island -at Great Neck. He owns and uses a yacht and several speed boats. His oriental rugs make one of the best collections in the U. S. When he wants something he gets it without ado. So he has a pipe organ at home. To save himself reading labor, he has a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...
...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
Clasped in his arms, Janey rallies her swooning senses with ingenuity worthy of true American girlhood. She snatches her bandit by the hand, slips the guard, and makes for the sea, casting off garments by the way. Easily they swim to her yacht, and soon are steaming down the coast to safety. The last hours of the night they spend in chaste though earnest conversation on deck, and at dawn he leaves...