Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the wedding breakfast came a drive through cheering streets to the Castle of Haga where Denmark's new Crown Princess laid her bridal flowers of lilies and myrtle on her mother's grave. The Danish royal yacht Dannebrog was waiting to take them back to Denmark...
...morning, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams put on a pair of old sneakers, hopped into a Star Class yacht, beat the Naval Academy's champion small-boat skipper, Midshipman David Seaman, by 50 yd. in a 2½ mi. race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten...
Smiling hugely, gigantic, handsome King Christian boarded his yacht, set sail through the channels and islands of his kingdom for the port of Fredericia in Jutland last week. Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to inaugurate Denmark's most important post-War project, the longest bridge in continental Europe, which will revolutionize the country's transport system. Traveling more comfortably, Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen, the rest of Copenhagen's diplomatic corps and some 700 other officials came down for the ceremony...
Seven boats, each with eight oars protruding, lined up like as many centipedes on the west side of the Hudson river, each held in place by a marker bost. That is the scene upon which the spectators in the 40 flatcars look. The official yacht draws up astern. An old, but erect man, Julian W. Curtiss, a Yale oarsman of the seventies and referee for almost three decades, steps forward...
Last week Batista's mulatto soldiers picked up Tony's hot trail. They found him at night in an old Spanish sea fort in the palm-spired valley of Matanzas, within sight of a yacht waiting to ferry him to Mexico. At dawn Tony knew that he was finished, began shooting as soon as the light came. Two companies of soldiers, sailors and marines took up safe positions and blazed interminably back. Toward nine Tony decided to make a break for shore and yacht. Covered by the machine gun fire of Senora O'Halloran, he took...