Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subjects: a fountain-as cool and wet-looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening to admit a cloud; a glassy-eyed nude crammed into a bottle, entitled "inspiration," a beach sprouting sorrowful, earthbound pigeons, whose dull green wings flap like leaves in the wind...
...financial tides last week left some big fish stranded on the beach...
...weather at Virginia Beach, Va. was too cool and blustery for the Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
...Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I'm going off for a little vacation. I am going away for three weeks-if I can make it, four weeks, and I think I will." He was going to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. Later, he might visit other southern cities. On the way home he probably would drop in on President Truman in Washington...
...fortnight ago Central's President Gustav Metzman called Young to ask if he could come and see Young at his winter home in Palm Beach. Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock. C. & O.'s holdings, which were reported at 315,000 shares, were now up to 400,000, about 7% of all shares outstanding. Vanderbilt and Metzman went to Palm Beach...