Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leagues were too much for him, however, and his costly Federal League died in its 2nd year (1915). With racehorses he did better. He bought the services of famed Trainer Sam Hildreth and out of his Rancocas Stables, in 1923, came Zev, world's champion. He bought a yacht, a private car, a Fifth Avenue mansion, an estate at Great Neck...
Died. James B. Ford, 84, vice president of the United States Rubber Co. and commodore since 1915 of the Larchmont Yacht Club; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. At one time one of the wealthiest men in the U. S., he left a fortune estimated...
Last year and the year before Captain Brown sailed round the world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...
...Mission to negotiate peace as counsel to the Treasury Department, and at the close of the Great War was prominent in establishing Hungary's finances on a firm basis. Mr. Adams was elected treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College in 1898. He was an amateur skipper on the yacht "Resolute", which won the International Yacht Races...
...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...