Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White, famed British aero-engineer, is widely known as an international yachtsman, a minor big-game hunter, and a member of the famed Eccentrics' Club of London. His marriage in 1916 to Ethel Grace Levey, divorced wife of George M. Cohan, has resulted in making his villa at Palm Beach, "Miraflores," the Mecca of numerous vacationing thespians. Hence there were many who rejoiced last week at Mr. Grahame-White's success in selling his famed Hendon Airdrome at London to the British Government...
Last August a great sea turtle emerged upon the beach at Kamakura, famed site of the imperial villa of the Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan. Out rushed the imperial household, agog at this omen of good luck. When the turtle, having laid exactly 70 eggs, retired into the sea, it was bruited throughout Japan that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese...
...wire business is quite seasonal. Every summer, wires are established to New England and the summer resorts. Just now an unprecedented demand has arisen for wires to Miami, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach and other Florida centres. To a less extent, the same thing may be said for many other parts of the South. The southern demand for security-trading wire facilities has arisen not only from the South's popularity as a winter recreation centre, but also from its marked prosperity this year...
Artur Bodanzky, conducting, called into service the windswept vigor which he acquired last summer at the Lido, Venice, where his lean torso was seen on the beach, wrapped in a gaudy bathrobe. His wife was with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...
...heard of the author of Potash and Perlmutter. Somehow, the Jews presented in Y'Understand (eight short stories) seem modernized, less Semitic than their forerunners. Perhaps that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles. Abe and Mawruss appear at length, however, fond anachronisms in a friendly quarrel over "Keeping Expenses Down...