Word: ao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations bar in Geneva, inventive Proprietor Carlo Beltramo, an Italian, celebrated the Roosevelt election by inventing the Forty-Eight States Roosevelt Cocktail. Ingredients: 10 "states" of white Dutch curaçao; 10 "states" of English gin; 8 of grapefruit juice; 18 of French vermouth; one of angostura bitters, representing Maine; and a final "state" of absinthe, green as the forests of Vermont, dripped in on top of the finished cocktail. Urged Barman Beltramo, "Drink one and see the landslide...
Frantically last week the Dutch Government's radio station at Willemstad called The Hague for help. To his vast dismay Governor B. W. T. van Slobbe had found 97 Gómezes landing, bag & baggage, on his tight little island of Curaçao, only 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. It was no laughing matter. The fugitives were the children, grandchildren, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins of dead Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez of Venezuela, seeking safety from the wrath of a people that sexy old codger had oppressed for more than 20 years. Anyone...
...LeRoy is regarded as one of the most fascinating, certainly the wisest woman in the International Settlement. In spite of troublous t'ao pings (bandits), a week-end expedition is organized to a temple some distance out of the city. Two love-affairs?between Derek, an attractive attaché, and Judith, Mrs. LeRoy's niece; and between expertly amorous Henri and Annette, a silly U. S. beauty?begin to blossom on the trip. Mrs. LeRoy lends them both bits of her wisdom, begins to need it all for herself when Professor Vinstead falls in love with her. The t'ao pings...