Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a gallon of blue blood coursed through the veins of a snooty party delicately sipping tea one afternoon last week on the trim lawns of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. Here and there a peer, dangling a strawberry, gazed into the middle distance for a patch of white canvas against the blue of The Solent. In full swing was the Squadron's regatta...
...Thorvald Stauning, Premier of Denmark, after breaking a leg. The New York Times said he tripped over a "grassy knoll" near Loekken while he was showing friends a short cut across sand dunes to the main road from his seaside bungalow. The Associated Press said he fell aboard the yacht Nordsee. The United Press said he was holidaying at his bungalow atop a dune, got out of bed for a stroll in his nightshirt, stumbled in the dark...
Three years ago the America's Cup yacht races off Newport ended with much public confusion over the various fouls, protests and rulings and British Skipper Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith swore he would never race U. S. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt again. Last week's concluding pair of the four successive British defeats in the 1937 America's Cup series found all hands publicly cheering each other but Skipper Sopwith a little groggy from the spectacular quality of his beating...
Artists & Models (Paramount) begins with the Yacht Club Boys hysterically assembling a musical comedy production number for Chairman Mac Brewster (Jack Benny) of the Artists & Models Ball. That Chairman Brewster's terse comment, "It stinks," does not describe the haphazard entertainment that follows is mainly owing to the scenes which Jack Benny relieves with his deprecating brand of drollery. Otherwise Artists & Models, with Director Raoul Walsh struggling to wedge into it enough people and music for three shows, would have difficulty adding...
Wearer of a daily carnation, owner of a quarter-million-dollar yacht, Lord Camrose is a Conservative with his eyes open, plays cricket with the Government, pursues a middle course in his papers and keeps his personality out of them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes...