Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit same gracious enjoyment of unostentatious luxuries-would have to live in city or commute, and he hates both; might be expected to work Saturdays, and reserves Saturdays for domestic pleasures; several times the income that keeps a comfortable cabin cruiser on Lake Chautauqua wouldn't maintain a yacht on the Hudson; stable of fine saddle horses can be kept almost adjoining spacious colonial home in Jamestown, but not so in New York City...
Cuba sent a gunboat, a naval training ship and the presidential yacht. The U. S. landed the officers and crews of three Coast Guard cutters and the destroyer Taylor. The foreign quarter at Ybor City was a bedlam of screeching Latins. Twenty-five thousand civilians, gesticulating madly swarmed out to a vast public enclosure of pavilions illuminated all night with blue & red electric lights. Thus last week did Tampa begin celebrating the golden jubilee of its cigar industry...
...thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History received its first news from the expedition which rich, eccentric Templeton Crocker of San Francisco is conducting in the South Sea islands aboard his big yacht Zaca. The news: Gygis alba, a white, gull-like bird, builds no nest for her solitary, mottled egg but plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering...
...probably spends more pounds buying Imperial Russian enamel and ikons from Wartski & Co. on Regent Street than on any other self-indulgence. But the fawning Messrs. Wartski hold no royal warrant, even though they have also sold intimate things for King George, such as the chronometer of the royal yacht. Not to be confused with the Regent Street Wartskis are Wartski & Sons, Ltd. in Bishopsgate, Waterproofers By Royal Warrant...