Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue Blood!"; Blue Blood!! Blue Blood!!! chugged the engines of the Presidential yacht. Captain Adolphus Andrews thrust an ordinary pin into the spot on his chart which marks Plymouth, Mass., instructed his helmsman to make for that pin with all speed...
With every chug the yacht drew nearer to the squat boulder from whose eminence New England society finds itself able to look down. And when the helmsman at last ran to earth Captain Adolphus' pin, the President and Mrs. Coolidge disembarked " amid many direct descendants of the original Pilgrims,"; who were swelled by unabashed plebeians into "an enthusiastic crowd...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture...
Next morning he was met by President DAlvear and whisked away in an official automobile to the naval school, while crowds skipped away from under the car's wheels as it bore down upon them. The official party boarded the yacht Adhara and steamed through the traffic of the port, while for 30 minutes every vessel in the harbor screamed its siren in delight. A landing was made at La Blanco, Frigorifico, a great "meat factory...
...Hoyt's lee, was the Scotch boat Coila III, defending the Seawanhaka Cup, which was won 30 years ago by a 'British six-metre boat, never regained for the U. S. until a salute-gun boomed, a flag broke out from the staff in front of a yacht club, the Lanai crossed the line, left the sea to the toiling Coila III, the windy clanging of the gulls...