Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward a party of British tars camped in the sandhills. The two parties met in a brawling mass, clubbing and wrestling. The campers, outnumbered, were overpowered, hauled out through the surf and tumbled into the launches. The launches streaked back to the Hood, the turbines churned a little louder and the grey steel...
...Some of you will drift, peacefully drift, but ships that drift land on the beach wrecked. Some 50 per cent of you will mean well but do feebly. You will follow the rules, but you will not put your all into the task. But it takes courage to plot your course and see it through to the end. The hundred per centers among you will have that courage...
...appeared to beard the funny man in public. But someone blackened the Colorful Figure's eye one dark night in the washroom of a Long Island beach club, all in the true spirit of fascistic democracy. Although this fistic filibusterer, the Kingfish, in a spirit of pure research, has located him on a preferred list of J.P. Morgan, the financial wizard recently tried for financial witchcraft. Now in the egalitarian thinking of Mr. Long, to be on a Morgan list is to be Morgan-owned, and Mr. Morgan owns Collier's weekly. This was discovered by Huey when...
...international championship for star boats-slim, 22-ft. sloops with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack...
...sold the Sun to his brother-in-law, Moses Yale Beach, for $40,000, and 30 years later said it was the silliest thing he ever did. The Beach family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...