Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lakehurst round trip. They were Karl von Wiegand (Hearst correspondent), Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Hearst correspondent), Lady Grace Drummond lay (Hearst correspondent), Robert Hartman (Hearst photographer), Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl (Hearst guest, U. S. Naval observer), Lieut. Jack C. Richardson (U. S. Naval observer), William B. Leeds (rich playboy), Joachim Rickard (correspondent for Spanish newpapers), Heinz von Eschwege-Lichbert (German journalist...
...were the Akron hills with the Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible hangar mounting tremendously toward completion. No trouble was there getting to Manhattan and Lakehurst, and much joy. First to alight was Lieut. Richardson, who jumped to hug his wife and child. Other passengers rushed variously for bath and bed. Said Playboy Leeds: "I never saw the world, but only four bathtubs. . . . Please let me hustle along to that warm bath...
Maurice Chevalier, cinemactor (Innocents of Paris), adored playboy of Paris music halls, returned home from the U. S. Cried he to a surging crowd of welcomers at the Gare St. Lazare: "L'Amerique, c'est swell! Nouveau York, c'est swell! L'Hollywood, c'est la plus swell...
...Hearst group had tickets for the whole voyage. Other trippers included Joachim Rickard, Massachusetts-born Spanish correspondent, who was obliged to fight Hearst opposition to his passage; Lieutenant Jack C. Richardson, U. S. Navy observer; William B. Leeds, socialite playboy. Lieut.-Col. Nelson Morris, nephew of Ira Nelson Morris (Chicago meatpacker and onetime Minister to Sweden), had a ticket as far as Friedrichshafen...
...Playboy Leeds stayed up all night "to see the dawn over Nantucket...