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...infant or an elf; I let her choose her books herself, But, since you ask me, I should not Give her a race horse, or a yacht, A billiard table, or a course Of easy lectures on divorce, Though none of these should I describe As dangers to the British tribe. Nor should I draw my child's attention To certain bits I will not mention In Holy Writ, in Shakespeare's plays, And other works of olden days. I should not give her Law Reports (O dear, the things they say in courts...
...another feudal fee, returned home from an African vacation to reassume his duties as absolute Prince of Monaco. His 2,245 subjects, who together with some 20,000 foreigners make up the population of Monaco, gave every sign of being glad to have him back. When the royal motor yacht Deo Juvante II glided past the harbor breakwater at the end of a 7,000-mile cruise, the young (31) prince himself was at the helm, sporting a month-old growth of beard and looking every inch a blue-water sailor. Cheering crowds of Monégasques lined the waterfront...
...Crimson Yacht Club finished eighth out of a field of 12 in Schell Trophy competition over the weekend. The Trophy Race, which is the fall season's most important two-crew event for New England, was won by M.I.T., who edged out Navy, the defending champion...
...Port Washington. N.Y., members of the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club found the kind of dusty going they are used to at home, sailed their International one-design yachts through heavy weather that dismasted an American boat, and beat out the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club for the Skoal Trophy...
...simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands in the loam outside the entry and since, as a matter of plain truth, you spent the entire summer rowing stroke for the Buffalo Yacht Club eight, your story will be unhesitatingly accepted. The assembled company will blush for shame for having so heartlessly tantalized you. If some of them happen to owe you money, so much the better...