Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply to a telegram sent by the University of California suggesting that Harvard enter an inter-collegiate crew Regatta at Long Beach in June, W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, wired that Harvard could not accept the invitation...
...last week at Miami Municipal Airport, had been threatened by Depression. Prize money was reduced, few cups were donated. There was no free gasoline for contestants. The show needed an angel. Up stepped bristle-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, utility tycoon who lately bought swank Miami hotels and beach clubs. Alert to the promotion value of the meet he posted $2,500 and a cup for an amateur pilot's race from Daytona Beach to Miami, at the end of a pilgrimage sponsored by the U. S. Amateur Air Pilots' Association. Also he invited the contestants...
...careful young banker-snob, sent to manage the firm's Palm Beach branch, makes a "success" at the expense of everything...
Joseph Hergesheimer is no Communist and he likes the good things of this world. Like other successful writers he has moved familiarly among the pleasure-hunters of the U. S.'s expensive winter resort, Palm Beach, jotting down many a note of things seen & heard. Some of these ten short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven...
...middle-aged New Englander goes to Palm Beach to visit the widow of his millionaire employer. He finds her changed for the worse, her children fiendish. She wants him to marry her, to protect her from them and from her own bad habits. Vengefully he agrees...