Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, Captain John A. Murdocke owns Kilgore & French, one of the world's half-dozen great tailoring houses, and is admitted to the royal enclosure at Ascot. In the U. S., he is a style reporter for Men's Wear magazine, Interwoven Socks and Palm Beach Suits. Arriving in Manhattan last week, the impeccable Captain Murdocke listed the U. S. men he considers best dressed (among others): Cinemactors John Loder, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Tyrone Power, Clark Gable; Socialites Angier Biddle Duke, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Marshall Field III, Joseph E. Widener, Peter Widener, William Goadby...
Died. Harry Guyer Leslie, 59, onetime (1929-33) Republican Governor of Indiana; of a heart ailment; in Miami Beach...
...Department nor the President showed an inclination to deny the report. Having already finished his job as chairman of the Maritime Commission (TIME, Nov. 22), Joe Kennedy gave a farewell party to his staff at his Maryland mansion, and set off for a fortnight's holiday at Palm Beach in the manner of a man getting ready to tackle...
...When he was managing a canal company, Wistar called on President Ulysses S. Grant at Long Beach, N. J. to protest against what he considered oppressive tax maneuvers engaged in by the Secretary of the Treasury. During the conversation Grant asked: "General Wistar, have you any friends in Philadelphia who would buy that cottage across the road? I am very anxious to dispose of it." Wistar, suspecting that he was being felt out for a bribe, departed indignantly...
...after great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size of the guest bedroom in a beach bungalow," in which the smell of sulfuric acid from the storage batteries mingled with smells from the electric cookstove. Through the out-of-date, foggy periscope of the L-9, the Captain could just make out "a rather blurred image of the nearby seascape." Biggest moments in the life...