Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting Howard Coffin at Sea Island Beach, Ga. Campaigner McAdoo McAdoodled: "The first real test of strength has been settled. . . . This not only makes Garner a formidable contestant for the presidential nomination but it is a serious and perhaps irreparable blow to the Roosevelt candidacy...
...Webber '33 (L) defeated R. F. Evans '33 (D), 6-2, 6-4; Northrup Beach '34 (D) defeated E. W. Brown '33 (L), 6-4, 6-3; J. L. Noyes '34 (D) defeated David Spern '33 (L), 6-3, 6-0; the next two matches went to Leverett by default; J. A. Cooper '33 (L) defeated W. H. Horwitz '34 (D), 6-8, 6-4, 6-2; D. R. Davies '33 (D) defeated F. L. Stoele...
...Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor...
...Shaw owns a fine collection of the earlier Fakes, which he invited the new Fakirs to study. Last week he gave his prize (a check instead of pennies) to Beata Beach, daughter of Sculptor Chester Beach, for a parody of De Witt M. Lockman's Academy portrait, His Ancestor's Uniform. The original showed a baldish gentleman in pince nez, leaning against a colonial mantelpiece in a Revolutionary uniform. Fakir Beach showed the same man, completely nude, against the same mantel, under a portrait...
...house in a hangar, the giant flying boat DO-X has been high & dry on the beach at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y., since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...