Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am wrong but I was wondering if some photographer had fooled TIME or was TIME trying to palm off on us an unauthentic photograph-a thing which even the best of journalists have not at times balked...
Divorced. John Randolph Hearst, 28, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; by his second wife, Gretchen Wilson Hearst; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs. Hearst testified her husband had shattered her nerves, impaired her health...
Silent men on the program are two dwarfs and a giant, Jack Earle, from the circus. Earle is expected to display his prodigious strength by carrying one of the little men in each palm. He holds a law degree from the University of Texas...
...lying (max. elev. 325 ft.) peninsula full of paradoxes and contrasts, great banality and great excitement. It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades and the unbelievably soft living of Palm Beach. Every year 2,000,000 visitors drive, ride, sail and fly there to see such divergent sights as the matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the flowerlike flamingos in the infield at Hialeah and the old people quietly dying...
Literally true to his promise not to meddle in this year's local elections Franklin Roosevelt has so far himself said nothing whatever about this year's Florida primaries. But when James Roosevelt stopped off in Palm Beach last winter, he glibly announced: "It is our sincere hope that he [Claude Pepper] will be returned to the Senate." Mark Wilcox's acid comment: "The State of Florida is waiting with bated breath to see what stand Sistie and Buzzie [Dall] will take...