Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left school to be waiter in an insane asylum, left the asylum to be a bicycle racer, left his bicycle to work in the Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird, a $115,000 twelve-cylinder, 1,400-h.p. Napier-motored racing car in which he hoped to beat the world's record he made last year?245.733 m.p.h...
Like 999, Sir Malcolm's Blue Bird is hard to start. It has two small motors for this purpose. After training for six months (not drinking, smoking very little) and after waiting two weeks for a day when the wide flat beach would be sufficiently dry and smooth, Sir Malcolm Campbell last week had Blue Bird brought from the shed in which he keeps it. His chief mechanic, Leo Villa, helped him start the motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like...
...Maureen Orcutt: the Florida golf championship for women; beating Helen Hicks, with a birdie 3, on the 19th hole of the final, at Palm Beach. ¶ Sonia Henje: the world's figure skating championship for women: at Montreal. A week earlier one D. B. Cruikshank, president of an Ottawa skating club which had invited Miss Henje to give an exhibition, accused her large, red-faced father of demanding an exorbitant amount of money for expenses. Said he: "We flatly refused to become a party to what we believed was a straight hold-up on the part of ... an amateur...
...brother-in-law, Robert L. Irwin, was another man with whom she was in excellent psychic rapport. She at Long Beach, Calif, could telepath his sketches from Pasadena, 25 airline miles away...
...heard the boy's story: He had sold papers on Chicago's South Side, bell-hopped at the Chicago Beach Hotel, sung in the Olivet Baptist Church choir. Mrs, Blackstone invited her butler's boy to lunch with her. There arose an argument as to whether he should go to the front door or around by the back as he had done the countless times he had gone to see his father. His mother telephoned the housekeeper. He used the front...