Word: bermudians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anxious to be present at the impending royal and naval functions in Bermuda, many a U. S. tycoon & wife opened their white-roofed cottage last week. Humbler citizens took hotel rooms. Bermudian landlords, shopkeepers, bartenders rubbed their hands appreciatively. But not many U. S. vacationers who have gone to warmer, quieter Nassau in previous winters changed their custom for Royalty's sake. Between Bermuda and Nassau exists a gentle rivalry shared loyally by those who cause...
...West Indies, is not tropical. It lies full in the Atlantic, 779 mi. south-east of New York. But the Gulf Stream makes Bermuda swimming, tennis, golf possible the year round. It is occasionally chilly, foggy in winter, and sometimes uncomfortably hot and mosquitoey in summer. But Bermudians insist that the average temperature does not vary 20° the year round, that the climate is far more equable than any place in the world. Its greatest advantage over Nassau as a U. S. resort: it is 20 hr. nearer New York. Venerable is the Crown Colony of Bermuda...
...Only motors are ambulances, a few official cars for government use. Last week one Willoughby Wright, Bermudian railway employe, was fined severely for driving a tractor in Southampton Parish, one of Bermuda's nine legislative districts, had his tractor confiscated...