Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standards other than watch-ticks "Gar" Wood's race was a victory. It provided columns and columns of newspaper publicity under the dateline of Miami Beach, Fla., an accomplishment which caused double satisfaction to a short, round-faced, exceedingly affable young man named Stephen Jerome Hannagan. Hannagan is Wood's press agent, Miami Beach's press agent. Geographically, his time is divided among Miami Beach, Montauk Point, L. I. and the Indianapolis Speedway, whither he dashed last fortnight to prepare publicity for the annual automobile races to be held there in May. Professionally his prime allegiance goes...
...Paramount). Through tedious scenes of polo, parties and Palm Beach, this picture (from Rupert Hughes's novel) indicts the shallow rich. Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard), seeking the 100% husband, has divorced one 60 per-center, is engaged to Bill Hanaway (Ricardo Cortez), a "sportsman," quoted about 70. Seeing Bill with Sue (Juliette Compton) in his arms, Penelope marks him down 30 points and elopes with a Viennese doctor who runs a sanitorium for wayward girls. Bill follows, wins her, conveniently dies from heart disease attributable to alcoholism, athletic and sexual excesses; and Penelope, proving her worth by nursing...
Chief blame for race troubles in Hawaii was placed by Admiral William Veazie Pratt on the "beach boys"?half-castes hired to instruct tourists in swimming and surfboard riding. These brown bucks, it was explained, do not understand the easy familiarity between the sexes sanctioned in the Occident. They mistake a white woman's smiling friendliness for an invitation to license. According to Admiral Pratt, the laxity with respect to sex crimes in Hawaii is due "just to the nature of things...
...struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck by an automobile in Manhattan last month, ex tended his convalescent visit at Nassau. because his recovery was so slow that he could not raise his arms above elbow-height...
Decision was reached. Miss Hilliard's tent went to Master Levings, who was very low. Long distance to Manhattan roused the Oxygen Therapy Service, ordered them to truck one of Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach's collapsible oxygen chambers to Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, North Beach, L. I. A Curtiss-Wright Travel Air was waiting, with Stewart Reiss as pilot...