Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends, family and the ears and eyes of the public press, he plumped into the salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome by a series of political backfires during the week-the Owen "bolt," the Simmons...
...ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons . . . muscular derangement . . . evidence that he was alive when he struck the water...
Madame Rubinstein is among the most important, most fashionable of U. S. beauty specialists. In her bizarre, red and yellow shop in East 57th Street, Manhatten, she displays many a cosmetic product made of water lilies. To the skeptical she offers a tour of inspection at the Long Island factory. Here she would exhibit row on row of half-opened water lilies, kept fresh until the exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud...
...pleasant, especially when you come home late at night in high-heeled shoes and an evening gown, and it's raining, and you have to row yourself to your house in a dinghy that is half full of water...
...Metropolitan Pool, the Bronx, Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, 30, widow, kept her 240 Ibs. afloat for 54 hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender...