Word: bermudians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BERMUDIANA-Ronald John Williams & Walter Rutherford-The Bermudian Publishing Co. ($3). Beautiful photographs and alluring text put this 200-page brochure in a class equalled only by the midwinter bathing suit displays on Fifth Avenue...
...silk spiders of Bermuda have been weaving their skeins on low bushes and shrubs this summer instead of up in the trees and telephone poles. Any sapient Bermudian knows what that means: a hurricane season...
Bermuda hotelkeepers think they have a rightful monopoly of Bermudian hotel-keeping. But Cunard and other cruise ships now tie up in Hamilton Harbor for a day or more as "floating hotels" before cruising back to Manhattan. Last week Bermuda's irate landed hotelkeepers carried their grievance before Bermudas little parliament, the Assembly...
They asked that floating hotels be taxed ?2,500 ($12,500) for the first day in Bermudian waters, ?2,000 ($10,000) for each succeeding day. This terrific tax they frankly called "prohibitive." After hot debate it was approved 16 to 15, went to the Governor, but will not become law unless drafted in appropriate form and again passed by the Assembly...
...Evans and his staff, then boarded a tender and putt-putted to the swanky Mid-Ocean Club at Tuckerstown. The Earl of Chester celebrated the beginning of his trade tour by playing golf with Bermuda's leading tradesman, Eldon Trimingham of Trimingham Bros. (clothing store), famed yachtsman and Bermudian socialite. It was a close match. H. R. H. canceled an official luncheon, hastily gobbled sandwiches in order to finish the round before his reception at Government House. On the 17th green Tradesman Trimingham won, two up and one to go. Back from the club in an open barouche rode...