Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Around the World with the Speejacks. Echoes of the loud hurrahs that greeted the return of the 98-foot honeymoon yacht which carried Albert Y. Gowen, of Cleveland, and his bride around the world have been preserved in celluloid. The result is a travel picture. It travels fast, and is, therefore, fragmentary. Nevertheless it will suffice for a vicarious voyage for vast sections of citizenry whose wanderings are bounded by the village store; the state fair; the subway kiosk...
...bitter bickerings. When international track-meets, horse races, and debates have by good-sportsmanship only confirmed Anglo-American harmony, one may begin to wonder if the two countries had not better disown their pugnacious fishermen. The races were instituted to develope a more efficient commercial schooner, not an eggshell yacht. When each race becomes a question of the validity of measurements before trustees of the international trophy, it no longer stands as a test of the best schooner in North American waters. There should be either less regulation and a more powerful committee, or a change in the object...
BLUE WATER - Arthur Sturges Hildebrand-Harcourt ($3.00). The record of a 5,000-mile cruise from Gourock on the Clyde to the isles of Greece in a 19-ton yacht, the Caltha, under sail. The record of the sort of thing that all suppressed adventurers dream about whenever they pass the window of Thomas Cook & Son, and only the lucky and courageous few dare translate into reality. Blue water, grey water, storms and calms, the Balearic Isles, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Cartagena, Alicante, Civita Vecchia, Athens, Constantinople and its bubble-domed mosques, the men that go down to the sea in sailing...
...against a fifty-footer, a race between the best of each fleet would certainly leave the seamanship to decide the issue. It is only a step from requiring change of sail areas to requiring changes of model, and then the evolution of the fishing smack to the fancy racing yacht will be well...
Exit the Premier. In Madrid the Alhucemas Government pleaded in vain with King Alfonso (who returned hurriedly to the capital from Satander on the Bay of Biscay, where he had just won two races with his yacht Giralda IV in the annual Royal Regatta), to obtain power to put down the revolution. The Ministry then resigned, and the King recognized the revolution by royal decree, appointing General Don Miguel Primo Rivera virtual Dictator?" President of the National Directorate...