Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came, he undressed, he was conquered. Demos perceived his presence on the beach and thronged around him by thousands. "Al's here" said Demos. "Look, there's Al Smith...
...coming and not the going of Capt. Cook that the U. S. territory of Hawaii prepared to celebrate last week. Grass huts were built on Waikiki beach, Honolulu, to show how the natives lived 150 years ago when white man first gazed upon them.* The peaceful tasks of weaving lauhala mats, pounding poi, fashioning tapa cloth were conspicuous in the pageant...
Died. Job A. Edson, 74, president for 23 years (1905-28) of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, onetime (at 13) telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co.; of apoplexy; at Long Beach, Calif...
...survivor, José Aguila, babbled: "lost our rudder and were dashed between two great rocks . . . waves 30 feet high . . . every lifeboat sank ... we fought for bits of floating timber ... I was knocked senseless and flung by the waves stark naked on the beach. ... I and a few others were saved only because God is great...
That delectably ballyhooed place, a community by the sea near Palm Beach, Fla., called the Floranada Club, has failed for $6,000,000. Last week, bankruptcy proceedings began against the promoters? the American-British Improvement Corp., of which the president is young James H. R. Cromwell, son of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia and son-in-law of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge of Detroit...