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...hurricane. I've got it. Go ahead." "The water at high tide-T-I-D-E- clawed down the sand bank that protects it from the ocean. That sixth word is clawed - CLAWED - C-L-A-W-E-D ! All wires are clown. The wind is so fast we can't walk against it, autos can't get through, there are no lights and communications. . . . People here don't keep much food on hand and the dairy, milk, ice, meat -all food service is gone. It takes a revealing flash like this to -GET THE HELL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Columnist to Columnist | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...State is full of riff-raff from the North Carolina mountains, poor white trash from Georgia's Tobacco Roads, and its own degenerate offspring of former plantation overseers and Yankee carpet baggers, there is still plenty of Palmetto aristocracy not only in the low country but in the sand hills and up country as well. True, much of the State's aristocracy is run down, but not all by a long shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...fugitive. . . ." On his most recent break for liberty, incorrigible Rene Belbenoit reached Trinidad with five other starving convicts in a leaky canoe, was equipped with food and a new lifeboat by the sympathetic British and set to sea again. Reaching Colombia finally, he struggled for months across the wet sand and through the jungle toward Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abscess Abolished | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake. On the sand, with a comfortable rock at his back, the President spent most of his time conversing with the New Brunswickian Premier and eating frankfurters, than which he likes only scrambled eggs better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ces Aimables Paroles | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...project, based on his expectation of a 10% to 15% annual growth in electric power demand, new methods of transmission that would take 'Quoddy's output to areas where it could be used. That duty done, he settled back to watch his boys play baseball on the sand, a game which ended with members of the New Brunswick Cabinet taking on an all-U. S. team. Driving home as the fog began to roll in from the bay, the President held a reception on the porch of his red bungalow for his fellow-islanders and visitors from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ces Aimables Paroles | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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