Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their last charge the Japs smashed into a spot in our front line about five o'clock in the morning. They picked a place along the beach a couple of miles north of Garapan and for a while they may have thought they were getting somewhere as they swept forward, firing and screaming, waving swords, brandishing bayonets on rifles or tied to sticks, and grabbing up carbines from fallen Americans...
Dark Future. In Dallas, Police Officer J. W. Finley pinched a nine-year-old Negro boy who, in turn, gave him some thing to worry about. "When ah dies, ah's comin' back to haunt you." Roped In. Off a San Francisco beach, Mrs. Georgiana Churchill was floundering when she was discovered by a mounted beach patrolman, who galloped to within 100 feet, brought her to shore and safety with a lasso...
That first night was a succession of Jap artillery shells. From 8 until 9, from 11 until 1, and from 4 until 5, Jap artillery guns and mortars laid rough patterns along the beach and some 500 yards inland-one shell every five seconds. Around our command post and aid station perhaps 20 shells burst within 25 yards but as far as I know no one was hit during the night in our area. Men who are in holes are hard...
...through the night our destroyers offshore and our mortars on the beach threw up star shells which lighted the area like daylight and prevented strong attacks by stealth. By 11 o'clock of the second morning even the most conservative could see that we had come to stay...
Died. Benjamin H. Marshall, 70, design-for-living architect; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. He. designed Chicago's Blackstone, Drake and Edgewater Beach hotels, New York's Maxine Elliott Theater and Philadelphia's Forrest, for himself designed a pink, gaudy, tricked-up house which boasted a Ming bed that slept seven, a dining table that came up with the soup course, sank to the kitchen below, came back with the chicken and gravy...