Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan one R. C. Walton, newly arrived from England, inquired how best to reach Coney Island, famed pleasure beach. When advised to take the subway, he became elated at the prospect of a good walk...
...Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened his eyes, squealed, tried to beat off the flames with his visor which caught the flame, dashed it into his eyes, mouth, hair. If he lives, Joseph Castro may have a brown puckered face, two blind eyes...
Last week, alumni and friends of Rollins College met for dinner at the Machinery Club, Manhattan. At their head was Rex Beach, another gentleman who has turned his two-fisted, eminently practical attention to things so various as gold-digging in Alaska and writing popular fiction in the U. S. Mr. Beach lately acquired large tracts of rich black soil near winter Park, Fla. He studied at Rollins College from 1891 to 1896 and is president and guiding spirit of Rollins alumni...
...Beach made a speech. Little Rollins, he said, needs a ten-million-dollar endowment. It needs buildings. Plans are drawn for "the most beautiful group of college buildings of this type of architecture in America. Hamilton Holt, the president, has made in California and in the Mediterranean countries a special survey of buildings suitable for the Florida climate and is now having architects draw plans calling for the best effects...
...five hours, they had been flying over France, lost in a fog that obscured land and the tips of the America's wings. Once, for a moment, they thought they saw rows of squat bath houses on a beach. Again, there seemed to appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths...