Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...years ago Abercrombie & Fitch, Manhattan sporting goods store, imported a pair of water skis, sold them to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. This summer a Brooklyn German named Ernst has been cavorting in a pair on Long Island Sound...
...Myrtle Huddleston is the world's champion endurance swimmer among women. Five years ago. aged 30, she took her first swimming lesson. The next year she swam 36 miles across Catalina Channel in 20 hr., 42 min. She won the ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla., in 1928. when she swam for 31 hr., 18 min. Since then. Mrs. Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted...
...cold might not be added to her obstacles. She was further encouraged by the yells of her 15-year-old son Everett who accompanied her in a row- boat. Finally, 23 hours after she had entered the water at Glenbrook, Mrs. Huddleston emerged at Tahoe Tavern, walked up the beach unaided, put on her shoes. Though she could have walked farther, she allowed herself to be carried from the beach into the hotel. There she said she regarded her Lake Tahoe swim as greatest of her aquatic achievements...
...Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif, who led the Na tional League in homeruns in 1913-15 and 1917-19, after a motor accident; the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V of England, after an appendectomy, in London...