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From Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer, at anchor by a Florida key, a motor launch chugged away last week and nosed out northeastward across eight miles of wind-roughened water to the Gulf Stream. Perched high in a wicker armchair astern was Herbert Clark Hoover, a floppy hat shading his eyes, a three-inch starched collar prodding his digastric muscle...
Weatherbeaten yachtsmen, grizzled veterans of the briny off-shore deep, were somewhat inclined to shake their heads over such cushy concessions to landsmen as wicker chairs, percolators, automobile steering wheels. Yet motor boat makers well retorted that the motor boat is a pleasure craft, that a large proportion of its buyers are looking chiefly for a seagoing automobile, that it is women who furnish the chief sales resistance and for whose sake galleys, for example, are sometimes described as "kitchenettes." It is with the amateur sailor that the future of the motor boat lies...
Wondering if they had strayed by mistake into the Berkeley or the Savoy, guests followed host & hostess to the promenade deck, sat down in wicker chairs. Proudly, Commander Burney told them the R-100 is the world's largest dirigible, with a hull as big as many an ocean liner...
There are eight bedrooms, four baths, a big circular living room, a study. Oak logs faced with birch bark make the outer walls. Inside are oriental rugs, French wicker furniture, maple piano (inlaid with gold), Italian oak panelling, brass bedsteads...
...Story: A fortnight ago the Pennsylvania Railroad added to the women's lounge on car Gwladys (Porter J. L. Francis in charge; New York to Philadelphia) a green and beige smoking room with five light green velvet-upholstered wicker chairs & a light green velvet-upholstered wicker three-seated sofa. Other equipment included: mirrors, cuspidors, dressing table^ ashtrays. These facts were well broadcast by the U. S. press. Actually a smoking lounge for women is no innovation. The Chief (Santa Fé) carries a smoking lounge for women on its observation car. The Lehigh Valley R. R. is installing...