Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start a Dominican uprising that in the end might profit trouble-hunting Communists more than anyone else, although the plotters in Cuba still tried to keep the Commies out of the act. One night last week Trujillo pulled his bodyguards out of a party and went down to the beach. There he prowled around for a long time and scared...
Standard Classic Count Maurice (The Blue Bird) Maeterlinck, still a Belgian, sailed back to Europe after seven years in the U.S. (mostly Manhattan and Palm Beach), left behind him a damage suit against Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers. He complained that they had fallen down on the job of publishing his works and protecting his interests. He wanted...
...Bailey's Beach, at staid old Newport, R.I., the ex-Mrs. F. Bartholomay Jelke encountered the present Mrs. F. Bartholomay Jelke, wife of the heir to oleomargarine millions, and briskly conked her with an inflated inner tube...
...land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing on, as the Indians may have done, until wind and currents actually cast it on the beach of some island, the Kon-Tiki expedition hopes to reach Tahiti, 750 miles dead ahead...
Navy Ahoy. Of recent years, Duke Sam's exclusiveness has begun to fray around the cuffs. Except for the war boom, his company, which controls three golf courses (including Pebble Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...