Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
...Harvard Rugby Club, with the experience of an informal game against MIT behind it, flew down to sunny Bermuda for the vacation and for the annual Rugby Week there. Coach Ed Callanan's forces still had a chance to tie Yale for the Big Three championship, with outcome of its game yesterday against Princeton still in doubt...
During the week 640 pleasure-bent visitors arrived from New York aboard the luxury liner Queen of Bermuda, 1,323 more came in by Pan American clipper and other airliners. Confident that 60,000 tourists would flock this year to their shops and hotels, their pink beaches and hibiscus-hedged lanes, a few Bermudians had even given hotel prices another boost as the spring season opened...
...cost $12 to $28 a day, American plan, to stay at one of the bigger hotels in the Bermuda Hotel Assn. (president: Sir Howard Trott). This was less than Miami or Nassau charge, but far more than people paid in Bermuda's prewar horse & buggy days. Some of the fanciest price-boosting had occurred along Hamilton's staid Front and Queen Streets. Trimingham Bros, asked $24.24 for English flannel slacks that sold prewar...
...some who suspected that automobiles and inflated prices were spoiling the old place. "They're killing the golden goose," growled an old U.S. visitor. "It costs us 150% more to live here than at home." A warning came from H. J. ("Jack") Tucker, manager of the Bank of Bermuda: "Tourists don't need to come here." Some Bermudians had bought West Indies real estate to the south, with a view to clearing out before the bust. But for the time being, with more & more tourists ready to pay fancy prices, the Bermuda boom...