Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play. In We're Not Dressing Miss Lombard's yacht is wrecked when her drunken uncle (Leon Errol) steers it on a reef. When the passengers reach land, Crooner Crosby masters the situation by cooking clams, building thatched huts and at odd moments intoning such songs as "Love Thy Neighbor." All the others, including the Georgians who wish to marry...
Because eccentric Lady Houston cherishes Britain's aviators, she gave ?100,000 in 1931 which enabled Britain to enter and win the final Schneider Trophy Races. Because she loathes and despises Prime Minister James Rarmsay MacDonald she keeps on her elaborate steam yacht The Liberty, once the property of the not quite so eccentric Joseph Pulitzer, an elaborate electric sign to blaze across the harbors of Britain: DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR! Only with the greatest of difficulty could the manager of her paper, the famed Saturday Review, persuade her to withdraw the most libelous portions of a personal...
...Roosevelt that cruise among friends on a fine yacht was to be as thoroughgoing a vacation as any modern U. S. President has dared to take with Congress in session. Not one political adviser accompanied him. For company he had his fishing cronies, practically the same group who went with him on the same vessel into the Gulf Stream a month before his inaugural last year. Nearest among them to a politician was Manhattan's Frederic Kernochan whom Mayor Walker continued in office as Special Sessions Justice. He has always frequented polite society as few Tammanyites are privileged...
...children to Grandfather's lap, flopped his ears, ignored the conferring statesmen. That afternoon Babs and Dave took Scamper on a tour of Washington, laughed when he was unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon, he succeeded in ripping great tears in his patriotic suit. Scheming to get a new suit he crawled into Grandmother's knitting bag, kept mum when she took it and him away on a flying trip. High in the air Scamper's paws went to sleep...
...Europe. When President George H. Townsend of the American Power Boat Association and his friend John Wanamaker took their boats to the regatta at Lake Garda, Italy last summer, they had so much fun that they asked the European drivers to compete in the U. S., got Florida yacht clubs and hotelmen to put up $15,000 for expenses & prizes. On hand at New Smyrna were not all the best pilots in Europe where outboard racing is a more socialite pastime than in the U. S. There were enough, however, to make the series, after next summer's Gold...