Word: biarritz
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Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Maria Christina, Queen of Spain, sat down at a table in a Biarritz café. A headwaiter frothed up, was sorry but this table was reserved for the Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior...
Died. Mrs. Swan Donoho Beaty of Manhattan, wife of Board Chairman Amos Leonidas Beaty of Transcontinental Oil Co.; at St. André-de-Cubzac, a village near Bordeaux on the Paris-Biarritz road, immediately after an auto accident in which her husband was also injured...
...Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...
...gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew, Broadway tangoist. At that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant decapitation. As it was, his consular lip was badly gashed. When the storm subsided, the reported sea toll read : 16 ships sunk, 32 beached, 8 abandoned...
...land, dug, discovered tin. Today he heads the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, is one of the world's richest men, with a personal income exceeding that of the Bolivian Government. Although as Ambassador to France Patiño divides his time between Paris and his Biarritz castle, he is still the "beeg boss" to Patiñ0 Mines' employes...