Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public interest exceeded the most optimistic hopes. Long before 10 o'clock, when the doors were opened, there were lines waiting to get in. The giant Sikorsky, moored off the Detroit Yacht Club because it was too big to get into Convention Hall, was constantly surrounded. Most amazing of all, men and women seemed to understand and a few got out their checkbooks...
...importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont Morgan, who is now cruising in Turkish waters on his yacht Corsair (TIME, April...
Last week the august patrons of Surgeon Voronoff sent him forth, upon a yacht, for eastern Mediterranean waters. Officially he was on a mission to the French Mandate Of Syria, there to improve the wool yield of native goats by gland grafting, as he has already done with sheep in Algeria (TIME, Aug.11...
John Pierpont Morgan sailed into the Golden Horn near Stamboul, Turkey, on his yacht Corsair. His cousin, Joseph C. Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, had arranged to have the daughter of a onetime Governor of Jerusalem take Mr. Morgan on a Turkish sightseeing tour...
...Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation and where, insouciantly clad in bathing suit, slippers and tennis hat he directed the unloading of his craft...