Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golf. Like men professionals, most good women golfers go to Florida every winter to play the flat, windy courses at Palm Beach, La Gorce, St. Augustine. In the State Championship at Palm Beach last week, Virginia Van Wie won the medal. Bernice Wall lost to Mrs. J. F. Trounstine after an argument because Mrs. Trounstine had lifted Bernice Wall's ball by mistake on the 16th green. Maureen Orcutt equaled the women's course record, 77, to beat Virginia Van Wie in the finals two days later...
Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...
...Ormond Beach, Fla., last week, John Davison Rockefeller said his appreciation with flowers instead of dimes. The person thus honored was 22-year-old Pianist Helen Pugh who pleased him so greatly that he attended two of her concerts, at the second sat near the front to watch her hands. In Asheville, N. C., townsfolk read proudly of the distinction shown Pianist Pugh. Since the age of five she has been Asheville's pet prodigy...
...nine he wrote a pamphlet against Parnell; at 22 he left Ireland and the Church for good. After exile in Rome, Trieste, Zurich, he settled in Paris; supported life by teaching, directing plays; finished his first great opus, Ulysses. The book was published in Paris (1922) by Bookseller Sylvia Beach, spinster daughter of a Princeton, N. J., Presbyterian divine. Because of its obscene passages it is officially barred from England, from the U. S., but many a copy has been booklegged. A translation of Ulysses appeared last week in French. On its title page: "Translated by August Morel, assisted...
John Jacob Raskob & family, wintering in Palm Beach (they have rented the home of the late Buffalo Publisher William James ["Fingy"] Conners), were burgled of $150 cash, $75,000 worth of jewels...