Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Malcolm Campbell, big-jawed, handsome British automobile racer, drove his Campbell-Napier Blue Bird car one mile with the wind over the hard sands of Daytona Beach, Fla. Speed: 214.79 m.p.h. He drove it back a mile against the wind. Speed: 199.66 m.p.h. Thus, he set a new official automobile record of 206.95 m.p.h. The old record had been made a year ago by Major H. O. D. Seagrave, also British, in a Sunbeam car going 203.79 m.p.h...
Emil Ludwig (biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilhelm II) neglected to fulfill a lecture engagement in Milwaukee, Wis.; went to Daytona Beach, Fla., to visit John D. Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...
...labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...
Having spent millions on the place, the people who make Palm Beach what it is were determined to have their own mayor. Names like Stotesbury, Pillsbury, Biddle, Chadbourne, Phipps, Replogle, Heckscher, Seligman, Vanderbilt were attached to mayoral campaign literature for Major Barclay Harding Warburton, handsome society oldster who used to publish the Evening Telegraph in Philadelphia and now conducts the Palm Beach branch of E. F. Hutton & Co. (stocks, bonds...
Three socially unregistered candidates opposed, but without reckoning the fact that people do a lot of things at Palm Beach that they would not do at home. The excitement of this new game called Politics so lured idle sunbathers, tennis players and drink-sippers that, entitled to vote or not, they turned campaigners...