Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before dawn the next morning the Hoover car was cut off at Long Key, a barren palm-studded island 80 miles south of Miami. The President and friends detrained, walked a sandy way to the wharf where lay in spick & span readiness the white seagoing houseboat Saunterer. Its owner, Manhattan Capitalist Jeremiah Milbank, eastern G. O. P. Treasurer during the 1928 campaign, greeted the President, turned the boat over to him, got off. The President's ensign, a blue flag with four white stars around the seal of the U. S., was .broken out, cameras clanked and clicked, President Hoover...
Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...
...while black-eyed Indian children gazed, owl solemn, at the battery of cannon under his charge. Inside the stadium 50,000 people bought hot frijoles (baked beans roasted in corn husks) and cold beer from shrill peddlers, gazed impatiently at the platform garlanded with red and white carnations, green palm leaves, where sat the entire Mexican Congress, frock-coated, silk-hatted, and a brave detachment of Generals in navy blue, black and gold braid...
...swear," said Pascual Ortiz Rubio, his broad palm flat against a copy of Mexico's Constitution, "to protect...
John Jacob Raskob & family, wintering in Palm Beach (they have rented the home of the late Buffalo Publisher William James ["Fingy"] Conners), were burgled of $150 cash, $75,000 worth of jewels...