Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rain clouds rolled back like a grey curtain. The yellow afternoon sun turned the thousand gilded spires of Bangkok into spikes of flame. Along the waterfront, in ferryboats, tugs, launches, sampans and barges, every Bangkokian who could find foothold was wedged, patiently waiting, eyes fixed on the royal yacht Mahachakri as it poked its golden prow toward the landing. The King & Queen of Siam were returning from...
...that Their Majesties could land at 4 p.m., the hour prescribed by Siamese omen readers as best, the royal yacht took the royal party off the S. S. Empress of Canada in which they crossed the Pacific, then waited just out of sight of Bangkok until the Auspicious Hour...
Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning...
Cully, U. S. N. retired, and five of the seven Russian orphans whom he adopted and brought to the U. S. ten years ago, were rescued from Chesapeake Bay at midnight by the crew of the S. S. Verona which rammed and sank their yacht Kikachiaka ("Sea Gull''), a converted submarine-chaser. They were on their way from Annapolis to the Admiral's South Carolina home. The children with the Admiral were: three girls, Nina, 15, Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found...
...known as the Radcliffe Yard. Hello, what was this? No doubt a Debutante hurrying to a tea on Brattle street. Hardly had the Vagabond turned around to pursue his course than he blundered onto another. By heavens, the place was full of them! Slick, svelte, trim as a new yacht. It was Radcliffe. A tradition was passing. Worse, it had come to a pretty pass. Here, for how many years he did not know, the Vagabond had lived, lived shall he say?--existed, with this land of plenty just around the corner. Well, he mused as he swung off toward...