Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives, Left Wingers not connected with the A. F. of L., had waited on him to protest the pending dismissal of one of their number for incompetence. Mr. Boomer, who got his start in the hotel business rolling barrels around the basement of a Manhattan Beach hostelry 35 years ago, said he agreed to review the case. Then two hours later his restaurant staff struck with out warning. Said he: "At no time has there been any question of dissatisfaction as to rates of pay, hours of work or other conditions of employment...
...hummed out through the Golden Gate, bent a great circle course over six patrol boats anchored at 300 mi. intervals across the Pacific. Next morning the commanding officer of the naval station at Pearl Harbor received a radio message: "REQUEST PERMISSION TO LAND AND MOOR AT ASSIGNED BEACH. . . . MCGINNIS." At noon, just 24 hr. after leaving San Francisco, the squadron roared over Diamond Head and Waikiki to a pretty landing on Pearl Harbor and a thunderous welcome from the proud folk of happy Honolulu. There was little for the officers to report. All had gone well. Plane...
...bodies of thousands of Anzacs piled on the beach at Gallipoli have built a monument of fame to Australia's soldiers that cannot be destroyed. Australia's Navy, however, is young, small and very green. There is just one victory to which Australian bluejackets can point with pride. In November 1914 the high-stacked German commerce raider Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among...
...Nothing risque, nothing gained', is my motto," explained the demure and petite star, who was clad in beach pajamas, which both revealed and concealed when she greeted the excited CRIMSON reporter. "At first I tried to get along on my face, but after a while I took off my clothes and got to work. Nudiam is not obscene; it's aesthetic. The naked female body is one of the most beautiful objects in nature--at least some of them are. And after all, it's beauty that men want to see, isn't it? Well, why not give...
...busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other books: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse...