Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous...
...started the Saturday night the Harvard Rugby Club arrived. Pan-American Airways, the driving host of the tourist trade, was holding a Welcome-Farewell formal ball at the Elbow Beach Surf Club. Some collegians, it seems, were leaving, and some were arriving; PAA were killing two birds with one stone. Refreshments, however, were not on the house...
...team which Harvard sent down to Bermuda last week was quartered at the New Windsor Hotel. The Hotel Bermudiana has the ritzy trade, and the Elbow Beach Surf Club has dozens of vacationing college girls. The New Windsor is centrally located in the heart of downtown Hamilton...
...navy celebration was held on board, the mighty cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow and featured free refreshments and illustrated tours of the ship. Those members of the team who had enjoyed service in the U.S.N. saw fit to miss this one and made a beeline over to the Elbow Beach Surf Club to make hay while the sun shone. The Elbow Beach Surf Club, it will be remembered, was where the visiting college girls were quartered...
...attended the annual Rugby Ball. For a time, the Bermudiana toyed with the idea of charging $4 a man, but a short poll of the eligible guests beforehand showed this figure to be prohibitive. Most players were able to tear themselves away from the commitments at the Elbow Beach Surf Club in time to attend this, the keynote ball of Rugby Week...