Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a month of almost unbroken silence Company 1 hastens to report that it, too, came up to Boston with Pearson, Pearson, et al of Company 2 from Lido Beach, the new concentration point for SC candidates...
...their $40-a-day suite, to be ready in the morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed by his brother, Tom, 12, on a motor scooter...
Lieut. General James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, brilliant, scrappy commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, stood happily by while Corporal Ruby Newell, of Long Beach, Calif., accepted a bunch of roses and the verdict of U.S. doughboys stationed in England that she is "the most beautiful WAC in the European theater...
...general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
...Beach, wife of the novelist, phoned from her Manhattan hotel suite and was greeted by the switchboard operator with a cheery "Hotel Algonquin." Replied Mrs. Beach: ".Yes, I know." Asked the operator, "Is this 1106?" "No, it's 408, and I want to order breakfast." Operator: "There's no room service except Sunday." "Yes, there is: I've . . . had breakfast up here every day-and furthermore it's Sunday." Operator: "Sunday! My God, I'm not supposed to be here...