Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish we had you back." To get them back, Calwell offered U.S. veterans special bonuses and aids. His immigration propagagandists turned on the heat. A brochure printed for distribution from Australian consulates in the U.S. called up memories of "those high, clear skies, the rollers at Bondi's [Beach] and the surfers' paradise, the hurly-burly of King's Cross. . . . Maybe you're married or maybe you want to marry an Australian girl-perhaps the one you met over there or one of those you've heard so much about...
...readers that he knows all about everything long before it happens, solemnly reported: "Bugsy Siegel, problem child of the mobs . . . hit Page 1, as expected." He quoted one of his 1941 columns: "Secret of the unlimited cash of Virginia Hill, mystery girl who tossed bales of dough around Miami Beach this winter, is a Chicago bookmaker." The AP, however, gallantly continued to refer to her as an heiress...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan in an intelligent triangular thriller, well directed by Jean Renoir (TIME, June...
...Poughkeepsie-born Lucius Messenger Boomer a while to get the hotel to prove it. He was a stenographer, a bookkeeper and a part-time law student until his eyes failed. He got a job as a roustabout, pushing barrels around the basement of the old Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach, and then he decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities and was part owner of Manhattan...
...What can be so attractive about Cambridge Common under a hot summer sun?" The girls who had forsaken beach for book were ready with diverse answers...