Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer of my summer home, I have been led to believe that Mr. Coolidge favors the proposal and will accept it." Should Mr. Wrigley not have been misled, the President, encamping at Green Gables, Mr. Wrigley's summer mansion at Lake Geneva, Wis., will have the privileges of one yacht, ten master's bedrooms, a private bathing beach and a bathroom with gold-plated fixtures...
...Callers upon the President were: President Gerardo Machado of Cuba (see col. 3); Charles Beecher Warren, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who in return dined President and Mrs. Coolidge on their yacht Lyndonia; Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, who came for a stay of several weeks; Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Italian air ace, to whom Mr. Coolidge expressed his regrets over the recent burning of Signer de Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel...
...these people fall in love with the utmost bitterness. Venetia is lost between Peter Serle and Charles Savile. Raphael grows excited about an actress but fails to commit suicide although Author Arlen has thoughtfully put a yacht at his service with this purpose in mind. In the main their actions are unimportant, their manners make the story. Other figures glitter from unexpected portions of the narrative. Mr. Arlen has not entirely relinquished his trick of reinserting personages from previous books. The immaculate George Tarlyon is seen for an instant, playing bridge...
Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan financier-art-patron: "Word came-from London that I had chartered the Duke of Westminster's yacht, Flying Cloud, a sailing ship with auxiliary engines, for a cruise from Sicily in April, to Athens, the Greek islands and Venice, with guests: Novelists (Enoch) Arnold Bennett and David Gray, Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair and Artist Paul Dougherty...
Zane Grey, author: "My son is only 16 but he is as fine a fisherman as I. Last week as we cruised the South Sea Islands in my yacht Fisherman, he hooked a 640-pound thresher shark.* After a 17-hour battle the fish was landed; it is said to be the largest of its kind ever caught...