Word: palm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Hergesheimer is no Communist and he likes the good things of this world. Like other successful writers he has moved familiarly among the pleasure-hunters of the U. S.'s expensive winter resort, Palm Beach, jotting down many a note of things seen & heard. Some of these ten short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven...
...middle-aged New Englander goes to Palm Beach to visit the widow of his millionaire employer. He finds her changed for the worse, her children fiendish. She wants him to marry her, to protect her from them and from her own bad habits. Vengefully he agrees...
...Atlantic off Palm Beach aboard Captain Herman Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
...Year's Day the President & guests attended services at the Royal Poinciana Community Chapel, spent an hour driving about Palm Beach in a borrowed car. Early next morning he boarded a train to return to Washington and the last 59 days of his term in the White House. ¶ With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor...
...50th anniversary of his first exhibited painting, "The Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week they draped the door in black and tacked gold palm leaves to the frame of his self-portrait. Gari Melchers had died suddenly at his Virginia country place, of heart failure...