Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fearing you of the East may still think this territory possibly "BACKWARD" a la Grundy, believe it TiMEly to report seeing Sweet Girl Graduate on the street in Moorhead, our twin town (see map), wearing bright crimson beach pajamas and her MORTARBOARD...
...bruised body of a pretty girl with veronal in the liver were washed ashore on the sands of Long Beach, N. Y.; if she were found to be of respectable but somewhat eccentric family; if her diary revealed her as a neurotic and alluded to childhood misadventures with an unnamed, elderly and prominent man; if the girl's name were Sadie Schmitz and she lived, say, on West 17th Street, New York; if such a case occurred in cool weather with an abundance of other news breaking concurrently?how would the newspapers treat it? Probable answer: as a good local...
eccentric, kinky-haired socialite, unsuccessful journalist, geographical author (Park Avenue, Palm Beach, Reno), called in the newspaper reporters. He told them that he had seen Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker kissing Mrs. Vanderbilt, that he had just caught Arno bringing Mrs. Vanderbilt home, had chased him with a revolver (Vanderbilt is an honorary Nevada State Policeman), tried to kill him. Later Mr. Vanderbilt's attorney modified the story, said that his client had gone after Mr. Arno but had thought better of it, returned home. There, he said, he discovered that his gun had been unloaded...
...Lindberghs desire to visit Japan and parts of China, "just for the visit." They propose to travel the whole distance by easy stages from New York and return in their Lockheed-Sirius, the low-wing monoplane in which they made a transcontinental speed flight last year. At North Beach Airport, N. J. last week the landing wheels of the plane were replaced by pontoons to permit frequent landings for respite and refuelling...
When Manhattan Banker John Edward Aldred ordered holiday bathers off the private beach of his home, Ormston House at Locust Valley, L. I., they pelted him with stones. Next day a private police booth was erected on Banker Aldred's estate which is flanked by the homes and beaches of George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison and John Pierpont Morgan...