Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lies the palm-broidered key called Treasure Island by its fun-loving owner Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. Fishing is finer in Nassau than at Bermuda. There is good trolling for sharks, king fish, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, grouper, amberjack right off the mouth of Nassau Harbor. Only 20 mi. away is Andros Island which boasts the world's best bonefishing. Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest. It feeds in extremely shallow water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead...
Most remarkable, though less authentic, is the refusal of the infant St. Nicholas to take his milk on Fridays, though the palm must be awarded to St. John the Evangelist whose pre-natal obeisance to Christ is a commonplace of medieval legendry...
Died. W. Barklie Henry, 63, Philadelphia, socialite, yachtsman, retired partner of Henry & West (now West & Co., brokerage firm), father of Barklie McKee Henry who married Barbara, daughter of the late Harry Payne Whitney; in Palm Beach...
Died. Dr. George Morgan Ward, 71, president emeritus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (president 1895-1903, 1916-20), onetime (1903-12) president of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., winter pastor at the Royal Poinciana Chapel of Palm Beach; of heart disease; in Palm Beach...
...Poverty is not for the artist in America. They pay us, indeed, only too well. He is a failure who cannot have a butler and a motor and a villa at Palm Beach, where he is often permitted to mingle almost in equality with the barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than...