Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOOSE WOMAN-Rex Beach- Harper ($2.00). A goose-raising, gin-drinking onetime prima donna nearly earns her son a hanging by inventing evidence in a murder case just to see her name in the newspapers again...
Grand yarn-spinner though he is, Author Beach never on any account saves a tart twist...
...Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
...Long Beach, L. I., the New York State golf title was comfortably won by stocky Jack Mackie Jr., 18, from Stephen Geoghegan, 20, after the two had disposed of a field including such foes as "Ham" Gardner (Buffalo), Frank Wattles Jr. (Buffalo), E. H. Driggs Jr. (Garden City, L. I.). ¶ At Brookline, Mass., the Massachusetts State title went for the sixth time to aging Francis Ouimet, onetime (1914) national amateur champion, after he established a six-hole lead on youthful Winthrop Hersey (Wellesley) with a 68 in the morning round of their match...
TIME Long Beach, Calif...