Word: waterfront
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Liquidated. In New Bern, N.C., after Hurricanes Connie and Diane roared over his land. Harlowe Waldrop advertised in the local Sun-Journal: "Have some waterfront property previously listed by the foot or acre, now reduced and offered by the gallon...
...Hoboken, a Jersey waterfront town that does not shrink from comparison with Port Said, the old folks on the front steps tell the tale of a pretty little boy with rosy cheeks and light brown ringlets who went skipping along the sidewalk in one of the nation's hairiest neighborhoods -all dressed up in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. "Hey!" said one little denizen of the neighborhood. "Lookit momma's dolling!" It was the work of a moment for the roughneck and his pal to redecorate the object of their interest with a barrage of rotten fruit. Then...
...Duke of Edinburgh. He and Prince Philip fared no better than second, successively sailing in Uffa's 20-ton sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time...
Just before 3 o'clock in the morning, as the Pacific purred foamily on the beach at Santa Monica, California's robustious Republican Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 58, was awakened by stealthy sounds in the bedroom of his waterfront apartment. Turning on a lamp, he saw a crouching prowler beside wife Virginia's bed. Never better in a crisis, Goody Knight, a nocturnal symphony in blue and white pajamas, leaped up, lunged toward the intruder, shouting, "I'll get him! You call the cops!" As Virginia screamed girlishly, the crook escaped over...
...Waterfront: "Good little action picture, but why it got the Academy Award I will never know."-E. M. F., Dewey, Okla...