Word: yachtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...
When Skipper Vanderbilt landed in England last June for his first racing in British waters, 50,000 British yachtsmen chuckled. The tricky tidal currents, blustering winds and close-to-shore courses, were quite different from U. S. racing. But, to their dismay, Skipper Vanderbilt caught on quickly, won twelve of the 17 races in which he started this summer. Last week's regatta, climax of the season, was Britain's last chance to recover its lost prestige...
...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
...world's No. 1 yachting trophy for small boats. Norway had won it seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year in a row. So, last week the 18th Scandinavian Gold Cup races were held in the Baltic off Helsingfors, and Manhattan...
Like their readers, Derrydale authors are yachtsmen, private preserve owners, dog fanciers, fox hunters, polo players, bankers, judges. Their standards are high, but they are not literary standards. Typical Derrydale authors...