Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1902, when the late Willie Gocher plunged fully clad into the surf to test an ancient statute that forbade day light bathing as immoral, had there been such a commotion on a Sydney beach...
...elbow of Cape Cod, between Cuttyhunk Island and Martha's Vineyard, the elusive striped bass gallivant in frothy water. Their favorite spots are tide-ripped ledges which are practically inaccessible both to fishing boats and surf casters. For years, old salts have looked for an easier way to catch them. The citizens of Cuttyhunk finally got the answer...
They had the boats and the Vineyard people didn't. Result: Vineyarders got a month's practice at casting into the surf, and Cuttyhunkers got all the big fish. The prizewinner, a fat, 47-lb. black-striper, was landed by New York Salesman Gordon Pittman in a Cuttyhunk boat, at 9:30 one night with the moon shining on the Vineyard's clay cliffs 200 yards away. It gave Cuttyhunkers, who claim that their 636-acre isle is the scene of The Tempest,* another honor to talk about...
Carrying candles protected by glass chimneys, the worshipers file silently from the hotel along the rocky pathway to the little church, whose bell tolls solemnly above the rumble of the surf. At service's end the worshipers take up their candles and walk out, the last to leave shutting the door upon the darkened church. Silently all file back to the hotel...
...nothing the operators had not offered him in the first place. But he had seldom quoted as fiercely and gloomily from Shakespeare, had seldom endured criticism with more martyr-like fortitude. When it was all over he stood up before the news cameras as though he heard a surf-like thunder of applause...