Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it was high time for frost, temperatures stood at August levels from the Great Lakes to the Eastern seaboard. Manhattan small fry celebrated the hottest Halloween on record (81°) by donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers...
Onto a crowded beach came shapely, 17-year-old Pauline Morgan in a bit of knotted nothingness that left her 99% nude...
...since 1902, when the late Willie Gocher plunged fully clad into the surf to test an ancient statute that forbade day light bathing as immoral, had there been such a commotion on a Sydney beach...
...sharp-eyed Emilio saved a girl from drowning off a Chicago beach. She turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...
James K. ("the Commodore") Vardaman Jr., freshman member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, likes to tell businessmen what they like to hear. Last week at Virginia Beach, Jake Vardaman gave conventioning Morris Plan bankers a cheerful little earful. Said he: "I hope we shall soon be freed of all regulations except those that Congress shall itself decree." He referred specifically to famed Regulation W (curbing consumer credit sales) as objectionable "in principle...