Word: beach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
...their experiences did not end on the Cuban beach. Down to the water's edge came Cuban rural policemen, hastily summoned by the fishermen. One look at the small arsenal in the boat, rifles, pistols, gas bombs, rounds of ammunition, and the suspicious local police rushed the refugees off to jail, suspected them of being a revolutionary expedition to Cuba's shores. This week Cuban authorities released them, arranged to ship them back to Great Inagua...
Practically no one had ever heard of dumpy, self-possessed Johnny Goodman 1n 1929 when he calmly drove-up to the Pebble Beach course in California in a wheezing jalopy, stolidly qualified for the U. S. Amateur. Everyone had heard of him after the first day of match play because he put out the great Bobby Jones in the first round. Nowadays Goodman sells much more insurance, travels in better cars, wears better clothes. He was third-best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again this year...
Famed Literary Hoaxer Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) started back to Manhattan after spending 20 months in a jungle hideout 30 miles from Santos, Brazil. When Miss Lowell sailed for Brazil she said she intended to become a Brazilian citizen. She built herself a brick house on a beach clearing backed by jungle, had herself appointed district nurse. One of her accomplishments was installing, as a sanitary measure, cement floors in the thatched-roof huts of the natives. In Rio de Janeiro, Hoaxmistress Lowell said she ministered so well to the natives they named her "Donna Joan, the Miracle...
...According to Joseph A. Thoma, 39-Year-old city manager of Ocean Grove, who was born in nearby Long Branch and grew up under Ocean Grove's benign influence, the community is operating on a 100% cash basis, with funds in hand for building new jetties on the beach and completing hard-surfacing of its streets, and $35,000 per year net coming in regularly from assessments...