Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that turns its elegant back on the harbor, the odorous sponge and market docks. On Hog Island is the Porcupine Club, for swanky and exclusive food, drink and bathing. Nearby is also the home of Nassau's greatest dowager, Lady Williams Taylor. Beyond her estate is the public beach where incautious first-timers usually eat too many peeled oranges off sharpened sticks. Beyond Hog Island
...movies are wrong sometimes. Even the Riviera has its more staid, moral and conservative element. It seems that the younger generation of France had read Rousseau and had taken his teachings to heart. In the cool of the afternoon they were wont to bathe on the Riviera beach clad only as God made them...
...conservative element taking the air and cocktails on the verandas overlooking the beach looked down upon these profiles in the nude. They too had read Rousseau, so they turned their back to nature. Worse, they called in the police, who, dulled to aesthetic beauty, told the younger generation to swim three miles away, out of sight of the naked eye and where the eye could not sight them naked. Then these limbs of the law returned to their baccarat game...
...Beach, president of our Alumni Association, sees in the two-hour conference system a harking back to good old Twelfth Century practice. The more I consider the Twelfth Century and the origin of universities during that century, the more I am inclined to agree with Rex Beach. At the original universities there were no recitations. There were no lectures. Naturally, for there were no professors. But when professors began to evolve, it was not as conductors of recitations or as lecturers, it was as friends and helpers of the students...
Died. Dr. George Morgan Ward, 71, president emeritus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (president 1895-1903, 1916-20), onetime (1903-12) president of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., winter pastor at the Royal Poinciana Chapel of Palm Beach; of heart disease; in Palm Beach...