Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wives of "distinguished business executives" went pretty pink & white invitations last week. Would they spend a fortnight at the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel this winter as "personal guests" of Mrs. Bernice Challenger Bost? All they need do is bring their husbands-as paying guests...
...Bost fills her quota of 200 wives & their husbands, the Palm Beach Biltmore stands to do $44,800 worth of extra business in bed & board, maybe that much more in fun & liquor. Another $26,600 lurks behind invitations to "100 of the most popular debutantes" of the season. Those who join this "Fledgeling's Fling in Florida" must bring along mother or a chaperon...
...time rumrunner was Captain Bill ("The Real") McCoy, now living in West Palm Beach, Fla. where he owns an apartment house and builds boats with his brother Ben. He announced last week that in 1934 he had been commissioned by one P. D. Pina Chevalier, an uncle of President Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic, to design a $20,000 all-mahogany schooner as a Dominican gift to Franklin Roosevelt. Captain McCoy said the designs were all finished, approved by Mr. Roosevelt, and he was only waiting for suitable mahogany to be found to go to the Dominican Republic...
More distinguished than any of her performances thus far as a mere working actress was Paulette Goddard's farewell performance as a phantom actress. Last winter, after breaking one of her nails, which were almost an inch long, she went about Palm Beach with her finger in a sling...
Thatcher stitches the bottom of the new finger tendon to the large master tendon in the palm of the hand. With careful exercise, said Dr. Thatcher, natural flexion is usually re-established within six weeks...