Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alone at the stern of his yacht Sabalo steaming from New York Harbor toward Chesapeake Bay one evening last week, sat Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Suns,? puffing an after-dinner cigaret. He was perched upon the after-railing?his favorite stance, against which others were forever cautioning...
...valet looked for him in the saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...
...Thisbe, U. S. eight-metre boat, after trailing by 300 yards most of the way in the deciding race; an international match for the Canada's cup on Lake Ontario off Rochester, catching Quest, Fife-designed Canadian yacht, in a spinnaker run on the next-to-last...
...these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present at the birth, celebrated his twelfth day of waiting at divine service in Kirriemuir ("Thrums" of Sir James Matthew Barrie's stories). At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the royal yacht Victoria & Albert upped her anchor, cut the telephone cable which for three weeks had been directly connected with Glamis Castle...
...beauteous Margot. They form a friendship which prospers. Puttering about the Bay, he meets eccentric Faulkner, gains mental health which he loses by returning to New York and encountering Frances, herself jilted and now hunting him. Faulkner appears, frightens off Frances with threat of scandal, kidnaps Harvey to his yacht where is foregathered a group of magnates playing furiously with toy trains. Harvey's ego diminishes, and much clean fun with Margot ensues, interrupted by a visit from Frances and some friends on a small cruiser. Frances & friends drink with such success that Frances, disillusioned as to Harvey...