Word: montauk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swimming, gulls' egging, clamming, spearing eels through the bay ice, are more in his line than schoolbooks. He gravely swaps yarns with the bearded herdsmen of Montauk Point. The sea's spell is on him early...
...leading figure-bought 3,000 acres in Suffolk County with several miles of frontage on the Atlantic Ocean and Shinnecock Bay. The Phipps estates have also an option on another large tract. A month ago Carl G. Fisher, Miami real estate man, bought 9,-000 acres near Montauk Point. And Otto H. Kahn last week leased for 15 years, with option to purchase, 678 acres at Easthampton -for purposes unmentioned. Shore property is reported to have risen from $30 to $100 a front foot. Various Florida real estate men were reported to be going...
Died. Major John Hill Prentice, 52, African hunting companion of the late Henry P. Davison, wounded veteran of the Argonne Forest, in his hunting lodge near Montauk, L. I., of acute indigestion...
Last week, MacMillan's planes, under Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, flew from Philadelphia via the Delaware River, foggy Montauk Point, L. I., and the Cape Cod Canal, to Boston, where Mayor Curley gave a luncheon for the fliers. MacMillan also attended this ceremonial meal, then returned to Southport, Me., where he had just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event...
...World. For the 34th successive time, Chauncey M. Depew celebrated his birthday at the Montauk Club, Brooklyn. Said he: "I have come to the conclusion, after a long experience and many large observations with mature judgment, properly based, and properly buttressed, that the only sure guides to success are character, health and happiness...