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...finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were disqualified for crossing the line more than five seconds before the starting gun. Miss England II, wrecked on the first lap, broke in half and sank. The last heat was cancelled...
...reign of lusty King Henry VIII, England was in sorry plight. The State was pillaging the Church. The Enclosures had made weedy grazing land where once stood pleasant farms. Sir Thomas More cried out: "In England the sheep are eating...
...smoke until after the Royal Toast, but in the middle of dinner a huge silver sarcophagus full of toothpicks is solemnly passed round the table, a relic from the founder of Cowes, Henry VIII...
...Henry VIII, although a yachtsman, did not found the Royal Yacht Squadron (1812), but he built the clubhouse. It occupies the remains of Henry VIII's fortified West Castle...
...VIII. Thou shalt not borrow money...