Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because: 1) his appearance was formidable and extraordinary; 2) in his calm Texas drawl he could be more shocking, more amusing, frequently more rude than the people he was subtly courting. He was also a clever lawyer. His business thrived. He was not merely asked to Newport and Palm Beach; he was invited again & again. He had hundreds of acquaintances, few intimate friends...
...With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come in to New York City...
...this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing Adolf Hitler and his High Command at odds about invading The Netherlands. Mr. Conger and a British reporter named Geoffrey Cox telephoned Willy Messerschmitt from Amsterdam. The man who answered insisted he was the famed planemaker. "I haven't been out of Germany since the war started," he said...
...started the collection with a $10 bill, raised $1,400. "Tough and generous" Tex Rickard, who ran a saloon and gambling house, helped raise money for the Episcopal hospital in Circle City, first in the interior of Alaska. In those gold-rush days, Bishop Rowe bunked with Rex Beach and Jack London, taught the latter about Huskies...
...sand dunes in the world. Carl Sandburg's place is on top of a dune a mile or so from the Harbert post office. On the land side the house is a triple decker, the top deck open and sunny. The front porch looks over ten miles of beach through the crests of some tall pines. Inside it is the kind of house a good workman likes to have for his family...