Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visitors in London have seen her in gay night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...
Died. Miss Marie C. Brehm, 66, in 1924 the Prohibition nominee for Vice President of the U. S., since 1891 a national lecturer for the W. C. T. U.; at Long Beach, Calif., from injuries suffered in the collapse of a grandstand at Pasadena three weeks previously...
...American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type, carefully supervised...
...Baptists are not the only rough pebbles on the beach of contemporary thought. Why I know a Baptist who read Professor Lake's "Religion of Today and Tomorrow" and was delighted with its subtle sanity. There are demomorons in every church, including that of the Avowed Agnostic which, by the way, has a goodly group of them. And it is this which should worry one rather than the more presence in the would of--Baptists...
There is a plot about a trio of vaudeville entertainers who try to crash society at Palm Beach. True love meets a millionaire and matters are amicably concluded. Miss Smith again demonstrates that she can dance, sing and be funny a little better than almost any other comedienne. Mr. Tombes and Mr. Watson, aided by good material, are pretty ridiculous...