Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge? with Secretary and Mrs. Sanders, Major Coupal (presidential physician), secret service men, etc.?took a morning's automobile ride through Chelsea, Revere Beach, Everett, Somerville, Aledford, Cambridge, Watertown. In that vicinity they stopped at the Arlington cemetery to inspect the graves of John and Mary "Coolidg" ancestors of the President in the 10th generation who both died in 1891, both aged 88. A stop was made at the Belmont Springs Country Club (of which Governor Coolidge was once a member) where the President bought cigars for his party...
...causing 15 minutes of this and that. For those who receive impressions more readily with the eye than the ear, acts have been designed. "The Rotisserie," in which four girls, trussed on enormous spits, baste in front of an electric fire; "The Promenade Walk at the Beach" which sends 50 odd and some beautiful bathing suits skipping behind the rotund personality of Miss Frances Williams; the "Palette" scene, in which the Hoffman girls emerge, one by one, from a paint box, disguised as pastel crayons; "Cellini's Dream," difficult to describe. All these are transcended by the most colossal...
...long combers of the Pacific were holding their usual stately parade into Laguna Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...
...through the surf put a gasoline launch, the Thelma, with a fishing party aboard. The beach crowd watched her careen on the breakers, herded to the water's edge when the boat capsized. Good swimmers ran splashing out, split the first wave with a dive, plowed off to the rescue...
Ralph Sanger Scholarships--Walter Edwards Beach A.B., Stanford University, Cal., A.B. Stanford University 1922, Research Assistant, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Economics; Melvin Gardner De Shazo A.B., Seattle, Wash., A.B. University of Washington 1924, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Minnesota 1921, Philosophy; Elmer Joseph Working S.M., Washington, D. C., S.B. University of Arizona 1921, S.M. lowa State College 1922, Economics...