Word: beaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Judiciary Committee reversed itself by voting (10-to-8) an impeachment resolution. The constitutional "high crimes and misdemeanors" of which the Democratic majority accused Republican Judge Ritter: He granted an exorbitant fee of $75,000 to his onetime Partner Albert L. Rankin as receiver of Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, and accepted $4,500 from Rankin in return; he collected $7,500 through other receiverships; he took a $2,000 legal fee while on the bench; he accepted free food, lodging and valet service at the bankrupt hotel of which his sister-in-law was made manager...
Even the Genro. Scouring Tokyo and suburban resorts, more mustards slew the Inspector General of Military Education, jovial General Jotaro Watanabe. They gravely wounded the Son of Heaven's Grand Chamberlain, doughty Admiral Kantaro Suzuki. They set fire to a beach hotel from which had escaped venerable Count Nobuaki Makino, for many years Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and one of the very few Japanese whom constant duty and association have brought humanly close to the Divine Emperor...
...from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe of female golfers since the original appearance of "Glenna" herself. Last week, like most of her colleagues, Patty was in Ormond Beach, Fla., for the Women's South Atlantic Championship. She took the qualifying medal with a 73, four strokes under women's par. She won her first three matches, in each of which her gallery was by far the biggest on the course. She lost, in the final...
Whatever disappointment Patty felt in Ormond Beach at being beaten in the final of an important tournament was alleviated by something else which happened last week. With the seven other U. S. women golfers who have performed most ably through the past year, she was named by the U. S. Golf Association to play in England next May in the Curtis Cup matches, major team event of women's golf. Critics hoped her opponent on England's team would be "Pam" Barton, who is one year older than Patty, more redheaded, almost as freckled...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...