Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune's seasoned expert on Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune's tower on upper Michigan Avenue soon issued a grim proclamation: "The Tribune accepts this challenge. It is war. There will be casualties, but that is to be expected, it being war. . . . The challenge of crime has been given with bravado. It is accepted...
Speed, a modern goddess, exacts fierce allegiance from those who worship her in motorboats, airplanes, automobiles. Among Speed's most faithful devotees was Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave. Last year in his monster car, the Golden Arrow, at Daytona Beach, Fla. he set a new world automobile record of 231.36 m. p. h. In March he was fined ?5 for driving his private car 45 m. p. h. in Hampstead. People smiled at that story. Segrave, who had said he was through with auto racing, seemed to be keeping his word. But Segrave was continuing...
...Ivorydale, near Cincinnati; the new Baltimore plant, whose three-storied boilers can boil 9,000,000 Ib. of soap (300 carloads) at one time, is intended to guide ventures in the East and Southeast. Similar to this factory is a now-being-planned $5.000,000 plant at Long Beach, Calif...
...morality commission should be posted at every beach and its vicinity to enforce such moral rules...
...arrived a score of manuscripts from famed authors. Soon the Sun's readers found on the editorial page, "Fannie Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade of U. S. literati...