Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Into Miami last week swooped the yacht Southern Cross, carrying the world's best-known divorcee to the dentist. It was the first time the Duchess (nee Bessie Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore) had been in her native U. S. since 1933. A lot of things had happened in that time, including her marriage to a third husband, who turned out to be the ex-King of England...
...countrymen were just as thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...
...dead were Eve and Delton Conly. The still-living woman was Fern Thompson. The Wing On's fragmentary log told the rest. After noting that the yacht had run into a "cyclone," the entry dated Nov. 7 read: "Discovered Chet had died. What next? Help us, oh God!" On Nov. 8: "Buried Chester Thompson, 21, at 8:10 a.m.; died starvation ... he was too far gone at any rate to stand any of the remaining can of apricots we had." The last entry, on Nov. 12, was merely: "D. A. Conly, master, yacht Wing...
...call-money market he took a short position. While older & wiser traders were wiped out, Jesse Livermore picked up a cool million or so and a reputation beyond price. Thirty years old, he was again dubbed the Boy Plunger-this time by Wall Street. He bought a steam yacht and sailed for Boston, where he spent $200,000 trying to save a brother-in-law from the chair for killing his wife...