Word: beach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thermopylae, a Greek beach with a cliff on one side and the sea on the other, was held by Spartan King Leonidas' Army of 300 in 480 B. C. against Xerxes' large Persian forces. Valmy in Northeastern France, was held by French Revolutionary Armies in 1792 against the Duke of Brunswick's German forces...
Famed for her parties was the late Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice. Until she dropped dead two years ago while shopping in Paris, her tennis-week ball was the No. 1 social event of the Newport season. Lavish was the word for her entertainments at her other mansions in Palm Beach, Paris, Manhattan. But in one of her Manhattan drawing rooms Mrs. Rice never dared to give a party. Reason: she feared for its furnishings, all 18th-Century French, valued at about...
Born. To Prince Alexis Obolensky II, 25, Manhattan cafe socialite, Russian nobleman once removed, and Princess Obolensky (Jane Wheeler Irby), 23, New Orleans socialite: their first child, a daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: Ann. Weight...
...summer it is Sea Bright, Southampton, Newport, Rye-staying at the best hotels or draw-my-bath private homes. In the winter it is Palm Beach, Bermuda, Jamaica. In the spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager...
Garfield H. Horn '40 of Winthrop House and Long Beach, California was cited by the House scholarship committee for general "intellectual merit" at the Christmas dinner last night. President Conant made the award, a pair of silver candlesticks...