Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly changed. When I first started work at Harvard the Elm trees were so thick in the yard you couldn't make the grass grow, and the students used to take their girls walking in there. Now, I hear, they take an automobile and drive out to Revere Beach...
...Palm Beach, at the Club de Montmartre, Alexis Tcherkassky, Russian baritone, got up to sing. He had lent his voice to a benefit for Russian refugees, organized by the Baron von der Hoeven. As Baritone Tcherkassky opened his mouth, someone upset a bottle. Other diners with bottles, imitative, upset theirs. Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
Three famed and mighty women marched out upon the links at Palm Beach, prepared to do semi-final battle to find out who was the woman's golf champion of Florida. These three women knew each other well; they have succeeded one another for the last three years as national champions - Miss Glenna Collett (1922), Miss Edith Cummings (1923), Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd (1924). But it must not be supposed that they were merely competing in a friendly three-cornered way among themselves for the Florida championship. There was another with them-one Miss Frances Madfield of Milwaukee...
...Palm Beach, a speed boat belonging to Gar Wood, famed Detroit sportsman, rushed at high speed along an inland waterway, leaped over the bank onto the land, broke down a tree, buried itself in the underbrush, was wrecked...
Died. Frederic VV. Upham, 64, onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee; at Palm Beach, of a paralytic stroke...