Word: nassaue
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...board-chairman. He has large holdings of irrigated land in the State of Sonora, Mexico, where he persuaded truculent Yaqui Indians to raise fresh vegetables for midwinter Manhattan tables. He even has the distinction of having been defeated for Congress, as Representative from Long Island's Suffolk & Nassau Counties, on a Democratic ticket in the 1932 landslide...
...that time, almost exactly parallel with Rembrandt's career, The Netherlands was entering its "Golden Age" under the able stadtholder. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau. And Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
...Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said Father Stevenson: "I take great pride. . . . It's like showing a winning horse...
...Hall, in spite of a sore groin, is favored to win the high jump over Fackert and Wenzell of the Nassau aggregation. Norn Cahners should heave the hammer far enough for first place, and Mac Millard is conceded first in the discus...
...almost as good as their Varsity mates, had been defeated by two and a half lengths, sudden hope for the Compton Cup ran high. This was accentuated since a comparison of the times showed that the Crimson yearlings had one 3 2-5 seconds better than the Nassau second Varsity...