Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frenzied search for a new title this show was known as Palm Beach Girl and, at the last moment as No Foolin'. Beneath this inconspicuous nomenclature lies a show bursting with opulence. On the opening night it played till midnight. It showed dozens of gorgeous scenes, scores of glorified girls, countless songs and scenes. So great was the supply of everything that the mind wearied and the tastes grew tired. One wished that Mr. Ziegfeld had condensed his entertainment. Such condensation will unquestionably occur before ten days are gone...
...Dodge brothers who founded the famed auto manufactory of that name; to one Hugh Dillman, actor, divorced husband of famed actress, Marjorie Rambeau, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Dodge is asserted to have recently purchased for $3,000,000 the Joshua S. Cosden estate at Palm Beach, together with its furnishings, works of art, etc., valued at $1,000,000. At the wedding was Edward Townsend Stotesbury, famed Philadelphia capitalist...
...spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...
...Detroit builds speedboats - faster speedboats every year bearing the name "Baby Gar" and a numeral. One day last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle...
TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband suffered in kind. The idea was to make it a gently humorous tale, and the Eureka Independence Day tableau starts things off well?Delia Nesbit, the awning queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas...