Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia Beach was ripped and torn apart by the surf. With its power turbines under water Norfolk was left in darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake...
...Shore of Maryland bore the full brunt of the storm. The waves washed clean through Ocean City to the inner bay. Cars were buried in sand. At Salisbury all able-bodied men were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic from...
Benito Mussolini provided the bacon. Until the middle of last week Chancellor Dollfuss would let out no specific word of what occurred last fortnight when II Duce, in a dripping bathing suit, sat in a rowboat with him beyond the beach at Riccione (TIME, Aug. 28). He would only smile rosily at Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand...
Four years ago the Riverside Drive house of Mrs. Paul Condit-Smith, sister of the late General Leonard Wood, was dismantled, loaded on barges, taken to Long Beach, L. I. There it was remodeled to become St. John's Lutheran Church-by-the-Sea. Last week it became the property of a Long Beach businessman named Charles W. Ackerman. He was scarcely pleased to have it. Businessman Ackerman's troubles with St. John's Church-by-the-Sea were of long standing. Last winter, as chairman of the church council, he squabbled over policies with the pastor...
...Gama in Lisbon will pay a reward, amount unstated. In previous experiments, Portugal's tagged tuna have been caught in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean. But the tuna is a world wanderer. One of this year's 60 might well turn up off Montauk, Beach Haven or Miami...