Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playgrounds with his wife). Said he: "For 40 years I've worked from 5 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock at night. I've never had a real vacation. Now I'm going to play. I want to go to Palm Beach, to Europe, to Carlsbad, Vienna, Paris and Switzerland. I am going to retire, quit. I am tired. Money is not everything. . . . Frankfurters, coffee, lemonade, savings accounts, seven days a week, little sleep, bustle, shouts, profits, frankfurters, soft shell crabs-these are my memories...
...swimming pool at Miami Beach, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel, kept alive by tea, oranges, boullion, sandwiches, omelets and coffee, swam for 32 hours, breaking by an hour a world's record that had stood for 47 years...
...Barron's, the National Financial Weekly, is authority for the foregoing statements and certainly there is no man in the United States today better qualified to talk. ... It also might be stated without fear of contradiction that Mr. Barron is one of the most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning, he graciously consented to talk on anything from Wall Street to the human ear-the latter being one of his absorbing interests at present...
...that was news; but it did not entirely explain the large pat on the back. Keen-eyed readers found the explanation in a by-line in minute type: From the Palm Beach Daily News...
Voluntary prisoners in the air, Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman spent more than two days and two nights in the air above Jacksonville beach, Fla., beating the previous record by more than an hour. They jockeyed their single-motored Stinson-Detroiter monoplane to take every advantage of breeze and altitude, until they had but five gallons of gasoline left of the 550 with which they took...