Word: azur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the "Marchioness," exonerated by the police, and a jailed bond "fence" named David Frank, police got the lead which subsequently revealed that the gang maintained headquarters in Monte Carlo, entertained prospective customers with yachting trips along the Côte d'Azur, houseparties at their French chateaux. Last week the French Surété Generale, on the obliging advice of Prince Louis II of Monaco, who seemed curiously well acquainted with the gang, pounced on one Hungarian and one Czechoslovakian with $440,000 of the Devine securities, when some of them were being offered for sale...
...more socialite pastime than in the U. S. There were enough, however, to make the series, after next summer's Gold Cup races, the most important U. S. motorboat contest of the year. Parisian Publisher Jean Dupuy is a director of the sporting Cote d'Azur Club on the Riviera. His teammates were Baron Rothschild and Marquis Gonzalo de la Gandara, whose father-in-law, Marquis d'lvanrey, builds Soriano motors. Spain and England sent two men each, Hungary and Sweden one. Italy, where motorboat racing is encouraged by the Government, did not send a team...
...Auber Chateau d'Azur...
Star boats-there are 940 of them, in 68 fleets in 28 countries, at least one fleet on every continent-are the largest class of one-design racing yachts in the world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet...
...Tomorrow at three o'clock in a meadow on the Cote d'Azur I have an appointment with Pegasus. Pegasus is the name of my airplane. It has a russet body and white wings. . . . Sometimes drunk with petrol it leaps through the air like its brother of old, but in the night it can glide at will like a phantom...