Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last plunge in the surf from the long beach where the tide comes in like a racing current . . . . a last glance from the bluffs where the lighthouse blinks across the sea toward Portugal . . . . a last look at the rose-covered cottages, the winding streets, the open moors where the red deer browse . . . . a warning whistle from the boat . . . . assorted farewells . . . . the little yachts with the bright-colored sails fade away in the twilight . . . . back to Boston, back to Cambridge, back to politics, depression, newspapers, prohibition, bad weather, books and autumn . . . . And then cometh Atropos...
Sixteen Augusts ago a California blunder cost Charles Evans Hughes the Presidency. On the eve of a hot Republican primary he carried his campaign into the State where Governor Hiram Johnson was seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate?but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another...
...have been waiting for all year. A University of California crew won the Olympic Championship in 1928. The U. S. crew on the starting line last week was another California crew, undefeated in a season of college rowing and in the Olympic trials. Eighty thousand people along the Long Beach course saw an unforgettable finish. Coming into the last 200 metres, the bow of the California shell was a half-length ahead of Canada and England but it was even with the bow of the Italian boat. Dressed in blue shirts, pulling with the same kind of quick, hard-catching...
...Turin, described by the Associated Press as "partly of Hungarian ancestry." Right under the eyes of the Princess Jane, the Widow Kraus removed the Prince of Wales. They danced four dances in succession, two foxtrots and two tangos. Then they went out on the terrace and down to the beach. They remained out 45 minutes by Princess Jane's wristwatch after which H. R. H. returned to the bar, calling for beer. At this point Princess Jane went home to bed without pausing to say goodnight to her royal guests. Next morning the Widow Kraus swam with the Princes...
...formed a trust bearing her name to consolidate, operate and develop some of her real estate properties which as late as 1931 were valued at $12,000,000. They consisted chiefly of office buildings in the business district, subdivisions at Highland Park Highlands, Edithton (named for her) Beach and a section near Evanston. In 1929 the Trust needed new working capital, had to pay off bank loans. Mrs. McCormick endorsed an $11,000,000 bond issue which was further secured by $18,000,000 worth of securities, chiefly in Standard Oil of New Jersey.* When 15,000 tenants found themselves...