Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition at snappy Casa del Mar Club at Atlantic Beach, N. Y. where members surprisingly objected to Ganso's oil, Two Nudes Reclining, on the grounds that it was demoralizing to both children and adults. After art experts had lectured the club management on Ganso's technique, the picture was allowed to remain...
...tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously. At last, one day last week, a police launch brought Bertram & Klaussmann ashore at Wyndham, nearly deranged by suffering. Blown off their course in the night the flyers had landed near Drysdale, thinking it was Melville Island. They...
...little Odin is taken by his mother to work as herdboy for Bendek and his strange dark wife Gurianna at Kjelvik on the sea. On that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna...
...mother, who on her death left her daughter with relatives in New York. Little Halcyon, under the guidance of her governess, a spiritual Mrs. Rosenfeld, soon blossoms into an infant poetess, has her own little sacrosanct blue chair in which she composes "Us on Tip-Toe by the Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon's admirers in the anteroom. He determines by hook or crook...
Cartoonist Robert L. Ripley's nationa "Believe It or Not" contest was won by Brooklyn's Clinton W. Blume with a proved story of losing an initialed scrubbing brush in 1918 near the coast of France, finding it a year later in the surf at Manhattan Beach where he was a life guard...