Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats had asked. The capital stock tax (of $1 on $1,000) was stricken out, but by way of substitute the majority increased the flat tax on corporate earnings from 12era, leaving the tax on other entertainments at 10% on tickets costing more than 50 Taxes on foreign-built yachts were made twice as high as those imposed by the House (in order to encourage native yacht builders...
...which has been paid to the details of production throughout the show. The plot of the comedy like that of all musical comedy is unimportant. A young habituee of the front row center becomes desperately enamoured of a spotlight hero and decides to ship as cabin boy in the yacht which is to carry him to Havana...
...hundred Knights and Ladies decided to charter a special steam yacht and cruise to the Mediterranean?there to visit the ancient strongholds of the order at Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...
...officer's messroom. He could color the Missouri Capitol with brilliant sea-script proclaiming, "We [the Navy] Are Ready Now." The Naval Academy received ten of his paintings as the gift of the late George von L. Meyer. With more delicate panels he made gay the steam yacht Noma for Vincent Astor, the schooner yacht Vagrant for Harold S. Vanderbilt, the yacht Viking for George F. Baker Jr. Among yachtsmen and Navymen, wherever he went, he made paintings, made friends...
...gambling losses alone are estimated at well over $3,000,000. And the entertainments which he has staged upon his yacht off most of the fashionable watering places in Europe have become a byword, and are said to have accounted for another million...