Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geraniums. In Seattle, the Coast Guard caught a man carting away a mine he had found on the beach, asked him what he planned to do with it, subsequently announced: mines found on the beach must not be converted into flower pots...
Still the Houston was far from finished. When an erratic Japanese spotlight lit up the transports near the beach, the cruiser poured in enough shells to force four of them aground. One of her 8-inch salvos smashed fairly into a large warship, which wavered and turned over on its side, sinking rapidly...
...Winston Churchill and daughter Sarah got an eyeful of styles at a Miami Beach fashion show, and gave a reporter a small earful about Churchill style ideas. Mrs. Churchill likes simplicity generally, but plenty of color in the tropics, and long evening gowns-and she likes "hair that looks like-hair." Said daughter Sarah of father Winston's tastes in women's wear: "Oh, he takes violent likes and dislikes to things." Mrs. Churchill-in a blue-&-white dress, her white hair bound in a brightly flowered kerchief-elaborated authoritatively: "He really prefers just plain black or white...
...libretto suggests something by Rex Beach out of Minsky, with touches of Snow-Bound and Tosca. Hope and Crosby are confidence men. Setting off for Alaska by ship, they accidentally toss their bankroll out of a porthole. Forced to scrub decks and clean cabins for their passage, they nevertheless arrive in port possessors of a map disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying...
Died. Jesse ("Now You Can Be Taller Than She Is") Adler, 60, the little man (5 ft. 5 in.) who took thought and added two inches to the stature of the little man (himself included) with Adler Elevator Shoes; of coronary thrombosis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Famed for wit as well as product, Adler wrote a weekly chuckler ("Jesse Adler Looks at the News") for 106 newspapers...