Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentlemen of the Examining Board pushed their papers away, sat back with various demonstrations of relief. They had finished arranging, in honorable order, the scores of the 95 golfers who, at Long Beach, L. I., in Chicago, on the Coast, qualified for the Open Golf Championship. There were 5 from the Pacific Coast, 30 from Chicago, 60 from the East and 1 player who did not have to qualify-Cyril Walker of New Jersey, the champion. There was also one score so much lower than any of the rest that the weary examiners, their labor over, discussed...
...minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last word in airplane construction...
...preoccupied with the intricacies of moods, of surfaces. The pinguid fingers of Matisse's Jenne Fille au Piano strike from the keyboard notes that drip with colored stridence, red like the shuddering walls, waxen yellow and scarlet like the overripe fruits on the table. Duffy's Trouville clutches the beach insecurely, as if at any moment it might balloon, mad with gaiety, into the seawind, and shatter its striped pavilions on the salvoing clouds. Bonnard's Le Palmier is a jungle as gemmed and blazing as the subconscious mind of a hashish eater...
Donald Coats Gates '26 of New York City was chosen as vice-president of the organization, while Lee Osher Coombs '26 of Long Beach, California, and Forrest Foster Collier Jr. '27 of Cambridge were elected to the offices of Secretary and Treasurer respectively...
...fashions," announced the Fairchild Fashions Publications, last week, "have emerged from the domain of humor." They have, indeed, entered the domain of sport. Every year to Palm Beach go individuals who stare at neckties, note the shape of bathing suits, write home about the length of knickers, the color of hosiery. They are the "beachcombers" of toggery...