Word: shinnecocks
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...with his exotic, cluttered studios, fez-topped black servants, white wolfhounds and mighty oaths ("My God! I'd rather go to Europe than to Heaven!"). His styles became as varied as his enthusiasms, but in his summer house in Southampton he allowed himself to relax, painted the windswept Shinnecock Hills, and the shore dotted with parasoled ladies, in glowing, impressionist colors as pure as the salt air and clean as fresh linen...
...frame, toted it, with the other two pictures, to the Hampton Bays estate. There she built a fire in an outdoor oven, burned the Black Boy and Charles the Bold to a crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital prison ward, Marie babbled incoherently that she thought the Captain had been keeping bad company in his wife...
...York's Meadow Brook Club in 1895 a handful of U. S. "golf widows," clad in ground-sweeping skirts and cartwheel hats, staged a tournament to select a national women's golf champion. Best "golf-erine" of the day was Mrs. C. S. Brown of Shinnecock Hills who posted a score of 132 for the 18-hole, one-round tournament...
...Dredge sand for this roadbed so as to make a new boat channel in the lee of the sandspit straight through Great South, Moriches and Shinnecock Bays (like a channel already dredged from Fire Island Inlet west to Jones Inlet...
Long Island. The shrieking vortex of the storm first hit Long Island between Babylon and Patchogue where the barometer reached an all-time low for that area, 27.95 in. At summer resorts on the long strip of sand dunes separating the ocean from Great South, Moriches and Shinnecock Bays, the hurricane swept away everything not securely anchored including all wind-measuring instruments...