Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three famed and mighty women marched out upon the links at Palm Beach, prepared to do semi-final battle to find out who was the woman's golf champion of Florida. These three women knew each other well; they have succeeded one another for the last three years as national champions - Miss Glenna Collett (1922), Miss Edith Cummings (1923), Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd (1924). But it must not be supposed that they were merely competing in a friendly three-cornered way among themselves for the Florida championship. There was another with them-one Miss Frances Madfield of Milwaukee...
Died. Frederic VV. Upham, 64, onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee; at Palm Beach, of a paralytic stroke...
Thomas L. Chadbourne, who last year was Chairman of the Entertainment Committee which was obliged to amuse the delegates to the Democratic Convention for more than two weeks, plunged into the surf in front of his villa at Palm Beach. He emerged some minutes later firmly grasping the half-drowned Maxine Elliott-his guest who had been overcome by an undertow...
...established now that Al Jolson is the most valuable entertainer in the world. It is established that he, more than any living man or woman, can summon the audience to the palm of his white-gloved hand and hold it there. To his enemies-and he has a few-these statements will seem absurd. Survey of the reception he received in Big Boy guarantees them none the less...
...high plains to the south of Nairobi in British East Africa the monkeys jabbered noisily as they swung themselves from the mangrove to the coconut palm and clambered about the juniper and olive trees. The chattering stopped; curious faces peered through the leaves toward the ground where a disconsolate lion roamed through the tall grass...