Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BRIDGEMAN, RT. HON. WILLIAM CLIVE. . . s. of late Rev. and Hon. John R. O. Bridgeman, Rector of Weston-under-Lizard. . . g. s. of Ven. William Clive, Archdeacon of Montgomery. . . . Educ.: Eton (Captain of the Oppidans). . . . Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Knutsford. . . . Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Michael Hicks Beach...
...Daytona Beach...
Last week the news came out that Miss Ederle has profited only $20,000 since the day she staggered onto the beach at Kingsdown, England. Her vaudeville act started out to earn $6,000 a week, of which her share was approximately one-third. Her father and Lawyer Malone took one-third of the gross between them; the theatrical agent grabbed 10%, leaving Miss Ederle to pay the expense account of more than $1,000 weekly out of her own share. Recently, her act has fallen considerably below the $6,000 mark...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...
...cried posters on the walls of Mussolinized Rome. Patriotic Italians obeyed gladly, went down to Ostia at the mouth of the river Tiber. The thousands who did not have official tickets of admission to the area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...