Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metre yacht team: a series of match races with the English team in Long Island Sound off Oyster...
...America's Cup-rococo, gourd-necked silver trophy 2 ft. 3 in. high, offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a sailing race in England in 1851, won by the yacht America, and ever since the property of U. S. yachtsmen...
...despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin. Last week he was seriously ill, result of overexertion which a recent operation forbade...
...convention of bidding (TIME, Sept. 30), and is largely responsible for the present vogue of contract bridge. When automobiling was a sport he had the fastest car in Newport; when planes became practical he had the most elaborate one in the U. S. One day he left his yacht during a New York Yacht Club cruise, flew from Newport to Southampton to play 18 holes of golf, flew to a Harvard-Yale baseball game and to Poughkeepsie for a rowing race in the late afternoon, going on to dinner in Port Washington...
...still a bachelor in spite of many reported engagements, he has retained yachting as his major hobby. As a boy of 12 he had spent his vacations knocking around the Ida Lewis lighthouse. In 1913 he sailed his yacht Vagrant from Portsmouth, Maine to Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes...