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Word: alemeida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

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