Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo-Catholic group of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He survived his wife by one day. Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman and Florida realtor (Palm Beach Everglades Club); of heart disease; in London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn once planned to take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music for her. He inherited...
...going to a picnic. And Chicago ought to be picnic enough for anybody. Why, you can take a taxi and in a few minutes you're out of the heat and crowds of the Loop. Out passing green trees, beautiful parks, smooth drives? right out to the Edgewater Beach Hotel...
...late great William Jennings Bryan, champion of Prohibition. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the Atlantic Coast district from Jacksonville to Key West had declared for a referendum before she started to campaign for Democratic renomination. That, however, did not save her from being defeated by Mark Wilcox, West Palm Beach attorney, who strenuously advocated the quickest possible repeal of the 18th Amendment. Mrs. Owen announced she would resign her House seat after the November election, instead of serving out her term to March 4, because she did not believe in "lame ducks" continuing to hold office...
...Reporter Miller interviews famous transients ("Slim" Lindbergh, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth et al.), how the silvery grunion come out of the sea with the spring tides to dance on their tails on the beach (TIME, May 9) are among other waterfront marvels. One moonlit night, when he was lying on a solitary beach, a baby sea lion came and nestled beside him for warmth and company. An hour they lay, then Reporter Miller trudged off to work, followed by the baby sea lion's lustrous, wondering eyes...
...title to an illustration of "Hanging Rocks, Sachuset Beach, R. I.," will shock natives who know of nothing but "Sachuest." But the name, like most Indian names, has been as shifting as the sands which have built in at the rate of three feet a year and left the rocks, where once the Dean sat gaping seaward, hanging only over dry land...