Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also quite proud of our bathing beach. We have more than seven miles of the best beach in the country-a clean, gently sloping beach superior to any other on the entire coastal line...
...twelve hours, in which one or more boresome tasks had to be methodically faced or skillfully neglected according to long practice and tradition. To thousands of others it was a day of much desired relaxation, whether in the Red Sox bleachers, on the open road, at a nearby beach, or in a movie theatre with washed air. To the remaining few was left the function of celebrating Memorial Day as those who designated it as a holiday expected...
...industry and the world's first billionaire, he believed he would achieve his goal. But last week, as it must to all men, Death came at the low hour of 4:05 a. m. to John Davison Rockefeller at "The Casements" his winter home in Ormond Beach...
...word spread throughout Ormond Beach, solemn groups gathered at the gates of the walled estate. Similar scenes occurred at his Lakewood, N. J. estate, where Mr. Rockefeller lately spent his summers, and at Pocantico Hills, where Mr. Rockefeller had bought up whole villages to create his 3,500 acre dukedom, with its 50 mi. of roads, vast landscaping, staff of hundreds, private police force. Familiar to Mr. Rockefeller's neighbors, north and south, was his greeting: "Good day and God bless you." Many prized one of the 20,000 dimes he had bestowed with the admonition "Save...
...CARDINAL OF THE MEDICI-Susan Hicks Beach-Macmillan ($3). Long (411-page), impressively documented novel of the Medici, related as the reminiscences of the nameless mother of bastard Ippolito, a Cardinal at 19, whose precocious career was terminated at 25 by poison...