Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house guest, Harry Hopkins, he talked over the future of the nearby Passamaquoddy tidal power project, now that Congress has definitely refused to authorize funds for its completion. Then, with his family, Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake. On the sand, with a comfortable rock at his back, the President spent most...
While the Shah of Iran continued to smolder over the "Elkton Outrage" committed by two Maryland constables last year, other Marylanders were pleasantly amused last week by the doings of Egyptian Minister Mohamed Amine Youssef Bey and Soviet Ambassador Comrade Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky at Bay Ridge beach on the Chesapeake...
...hoisted them on to the railroad trestle with one wheel just outside the tracks, and the other inside and they bumped off with rubber bits in their mouths to prevent the sharp jerks from causing self-inflicted bites. Yes, they bumped off, presumably to take the Eastern Beach Trail that starts on the Atlantic side, above Colon. Whether they got where they were going or not, I don't know. Or I wouldn't know why they did it either. Perhaps their only destiny was to provide me with a one and only chance to contradict TIME...
...Wood considers himself a mechanic. On the top of his Miami Beach home he built a mechanized observatory which is an amateur astronomer's dream. He calls speedboat racing a "mechanic's game." To the Chippewa Indians on a Canadian island opposite his summer home in Algonac, Mich., Gar Wood is Chief Kezhee-Neebe (Swift Water). Lanky, gaunt Chief Swift Water attends tribal festivities regularly, though in his initiation, which included finger pricking and the usual peace pipe, the feathers were omitted because the Gar Wood pate is never covered...
...water-cooler in the city room of the Chicago Herald & Examiner. He proposed to her in the Old Mill at Coney Island. To save money they were married by his preacher-father. They traveled to Hollywood in one upper berth. There he lolled all day on a beach "getting healthy," lived on her salary. Finally...