Word: coco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, fortyish, famed Parisian couturiere; and one Paul Iribe. painter, decorator, Chanel business partner...
...Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1,788 nautical miles from Norfolk-160 nautical miles better than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic in 1931. One plane with engine trouble lagged 40 mi. behind. Around the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington last week it was jubilantly...
...withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms as agreed will receive squatters rights in the Coco River Valley, will be guarded by 100 Sandinista police under the Government's orders; 3) on public works in northern Nicaragua the Government will give preference in employment to Sandinistas...
...been out most of the night before at the ball of Proteus (Old Man of the Sea) & Queen (Marjorie Stair), got up early, piled into dozens of trucks padded with hay, drove through the streets of New Orleans in the wake of the parade of Rex, King of Carnival (Coco-Colaman A. B. Freeman). Crowds packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro embalmer, in a beaded leather suit, wearing the huge...
...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...