Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Natacha Rambova) was bequeathed the sum of $1. The bulk of Rudolph's estate will come from his earnings in his last two films, The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik. However, there are other things: his two homes, three Isotta Frachini cars, three other automobiles, the yacht Phoenix, duelling pistols and medieval arms, 40 suits, 50 pairs of shoes, 300 neckties, 1,000 pairs of socks...
...Managed" by Mr. Barnum, the General repeatedly toured Europe, became famous in Manhattan as a midget man-about-town who could afford to keep his own ocean-going yacht. "Tamed" by his "dearest Lavinia," Tom Thumb settled down at Middleboro, ordered built for her the house which straightway became a local show place...
...little man listened, nodded to himself, strolled out into the sunshine, entered an opulent motor, ordered himself whisked to his sumptuous yacht, Lydonia. He was content. The Hermann Kotzschmar Organ was not out of tune-and he was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, unrivaled pulp-Moloch, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post. (See p. 26.) Mr. Curtis' taste in, and love of, music fits harmoniously with that of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Bok. Father and son-in-law, are, needless to say, chief patrons of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
...undone and the racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf
...better appointment could hardly be made." F. Trubee Davison. In the summer of 1917, people of New York were too busy with War chatter to notice three planes circling over the harbor. The leading machine was making a beautiful spiral. Suddenly it sideslipped, pitched into the water, crumpled. A yacht steamed over to the wreckage and a young naval lieutenant almost drowned in releasing the pilot from the tangled wires. The pilot was Trubee Davison. His back was broken, he was crippled for life, he would never fly over the French battlefields. The year before, a mere sophomore at Yale...