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...Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Duke | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...dunes at Southampton, L. I., is a little bungalow of perhaps 20 rooms-property of Mrs. Henry R. Rea, widow-leased for the summer by Andrew W. Mellon. There the Secretary, if he wills, may romp directly from his dressing room into the surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Jun. 8, 1925 | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Thomas L. Chadbourne, who last year was Chairman of the Entertainment Committee which was obliged to amuse the delegates to the Democratic Convention for more than two weeks, plunged into the surf in front of his villa at Palm Beach. He emerged some minutes later firmly grasping the half-drowned Maxine Elliott-his guest who had been overcome by an undertow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Saved | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...Newport Beach, Cal., one Edward Dillinger sat on the sands with his fiancee. He could not swim, was afraid of water. She taunted him, ran Into the surf, was carried out, began to drown. Edward leaped to his feet, plunged into the Pacific, "suddenly learned to swim several hundred feet," fished out the taunting fiancee, escorted her home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...would punish Stanford White, for having been the instrument of his deprivation. They came back to New York and plunged into its high-roaring surf of folly, after which bath he killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morons' Delight | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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