Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister Baldwin spoke of his "strenuous tour," he meant that he would travel throughout Canada in 18 days making 15 major stops. From Quebec his route and that of Their Royal Highnesses lay through Montreal (one day), the Canadian Capital at Ottawa (three days), then a cruise by private yacht up the St. Lawrence, by special train to Toronto (two days), and to Calgary, where Their Royal Highnesses would say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin and proceed to the nearby ranch of Edward of Wales...
...usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null since Lena was one; said, yes, they would go abroad a while; yes, then settle in Cambridge, Mass., while he studied medicine; yes, he was giving her a million dollars...
...Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
MOSQUITOES-William Faulkner-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A dozen mosquitoes gather on a yacht in southern waters. The mosquitoes are: unctuous Mrs. Maurier, queen mosquito, owner of the yacht, collector of eccentric celebrities; over-mannered Mr. Talliaferro, who carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until...
...Coolidge, and Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh were arising. As the sun grew brighter and hotter, the tempo of the capital approached allegro. One hundred Army and Navy airplanes darted above and below and around the dirigible Los Angeles, like sharks baiting a whale. The guns of the presidential yacht Mayflower boomed a salute. Factory whistles shrieked. Nautical tunes bounded over the waters of the Potomac. The Memphis docked at the Navy Yard. Mrs. Lindbergh went aboard to embrace the son who had quickened the tempo of the world's chronicle since she last...