Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maloney. Once, when Ethel Barrymore was engaged to an English army officer named Graham, Finley Peter Dunne suggested a way for the couple to work out a budget: "Jack and Lionel will support them on the money that Ethel gives to Jack and Lionel." John Barrymore now has a yacht, the Infanta. His pennant is a king snake wearing a crown. Last week he was injured slightly in a motor accident...
Three days' sailing away, lapping their grey noses in the yellow river off Shanghai's Bund, lay the Asiatic fleet's fighting strength. There, under Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, were the cruiser Houston, ten destroyers and the yacht Isabel. The Navy's starry ensign also fluttered from the bows of seven gunboats patrolling the Yangtze River while off Nanking were three more U. S. destroyers. Meanwhile the Navy was busy elsewhere...
Passing his examinations with a grade of 84.80, William Hale Thompson, one-time Mayor of Chicago, obtained a Federal license to pilot any freshwater yacht up to 500 tons gross...
...look for a new job. The pickings were poor. He had to content himself with the vice-presidency of Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, an insurance company run by the late Publisher Van Lear Black. In August 1921 he and his family embarked on Van Lear Black's yacht for their summer home at Campobello Island, N. B. Shortly after they arrived, Mr. Roosevelt caught a chill stamping out a forest fire. A cross-country run and a cold plunge in the Bay of Fundy seemed to help things, but when he got home he sat in his wet bathing...
...troops. Three thousand U. S. citizens live there. There is an enormous and impoverished colony of White Russian emigres (many of whom are supplanting Britain's tall, bearded Sikhs as policemen). The city is popularly known as the Paris of the East, boasts an excellent golf course, race track, yacht club, an enormous number of disreputable resorts and the Shanghai Club, with the longest bar in the world. So popular is Shanghai with officials of the Nanking Government as a week-end resort that tourists wishing to travel to Nanking, eight hours away, Sunday night must book sleeper accommodations weeks...