Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Katharine I. Harrison, 68, pioneer "highest salaried businesswoman" ($10,000 a year, 30 years ago); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Long-time secretary to Henry Huddleston Rogers, she had an encyclopedic knowledge of Standard...
Freed from financial temptation by a fat inheritance and prepared by governmental studies at Yale, Oxford and Columbia, Robert Moses has given his whole life to able public service. Largest single monument to his brilliant, non-partisan career in New York State and City administrative jobs is Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated...
...weak man," says Pioneer Taylor. "I was so shot to pieces during the War that I really have no strength at all. Would you believe that I was able to drive an S. S. from here to Palm Beach in one full day - 1,200 miles? That gives you some idea...
Socialite women on the French Riviera had the brilliant idea last winter of dressing for the beach in flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade. But by a cruel irony, in Tahiti itself, biggest of the French Society Islands Tahitian women were forbidden to wear indecent pareus. Instead they were supposed to wear imported French cotton dresses...
...Miami, the stadium was called the Orange Bowl. Five thousand spectators in white flannels and beach clothes watched Bucknell, bothered by sore feet and colds in the head, romp through the University of Miami...