Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In your vivid summary of H. R. Knickerbocker's remarks on the U. S. S. R., you refer to the relaxations enjoyed by tired Proletarian Dictators on the tropical beaches of the Crimea as "nude mixed bathing" (TIME, Dec. 22) This is perhaps partially true. But it would be a mistake to lead the sensitive readers of TIME into believing that a Soviet bathing beach is sort of glorified American bathing beach (with couples all jumbled up together) minus those essential superficialities, such as bathing suits, on which our great civilization is founded. The most popular bathing beaches...
What happens when a moon instead of a sun illumines the scene, is, at any rate, what definitely does not happen during the daytime. In this respect it would take a greater than I to distinguish any underirable effects of "nude mixed bathing" not possessed by our own beach customs. As far as the desirable effects of the Soviet style are concerned, I think anyone who has tried it will readily concede them...
Died. W. Barklie Henry, 63, Philadelphia, socialite, yachtsman, retired partner of Henry & West (now West & Co., brokerage firm), father of Barklie McKee Henry who married Barbara, daughter of the late Harry Payne Whitney; in Palm Beach...
...m.p.h. offshore wind snapped a high-tension wire feeding the summer homes of such cinema notables as Ronald Colman, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Ruth Chatterton, Marie Prevost, at Malibu Beach, Calif. The wire fell on a tank of gasoline, exploded it. Fire ripped through the colony, destroyed 19 houses, including those of Louise Fazenda, Director Alan Dwan...
...Poverty is not for the artist in America. They pay us, indeed, only too well. He is a failure who cannot have a butler and a motor and a villa at Palm Beach, where he is often permitted to mingle almost in equality with the barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than...