Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...
Then Mary got married, and set up school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something...
...million base took some building. Going ashore, the landing parties got stuck in volcanic beach powder deeper and dustier than Iwo Jima's. At first, the G.I.s ate corn willie three times a day, supplemented with what they could shoot and fish. Wild goats gnawed their communication lines to pieces. Moths followed smokers and smothered out cigarets. By Christmas 1941, the Navy log read: 'All hands tireder than all hell...
...lakes were rimmed with refugees from offices and kitchens. Western dude ranches were bright with the stiff new levis and multicolored shirts of amateur buckaroos. The bears in national parks were stealing garbage by the ton-the parks expected 25,000,000 visitors by autumn. Everywhere, summer homes, beach shacks, swimming clubs, tennis courts, golf courses were fully occupied...
Griffin Productions' home, the Laguna Beach Playhouse, is only an hour's drive from Hollywood. The big idea is that actors bound hand & foot to the movies should like nothing better than a chance to do a real, live play of their own choosing. Griffin Productions will back them up with an Equity troupe...