Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kissed and expensive. He would sleep late in his Roney Plaza room, golf at the swank La Gorce Country Club, be host at an eggnog party at the Lord Tarleton Hotel. In the evening he would invite a crowd of cronies to a dinner party at the Copacabana Club...
Salad for Brazilians. Lodged at the luxurious Copacabana Hotel, Rockefeller was immediately surrounded by Brazil's rulers, the closes productores, but insisted that he wanted to talk with labor leaders too. The press gave him a lusty welcome. Said Correio da Manhá: "The American continent cannot survive while one part is strong and prosperous and the other poor and weak. Nelson Rockefeller was one of the first to realize this truth." In a front-page editorial entitled simply "Nelson," Diario da Noite said: "He returns to encourage the development of our land resources in the generous and disinterested...
...daytime temperature dropped as low as 70°), Rio had had a hot spell. Most of the city has had only a trickle of drinking water for the last two months. The ocean is bluer and greener; the sky is red at sundown; the crowds are more amorous along Copacabana beach; the open-air streetcars are slower than ever. Smells, bugs and skin diseases have multiplied. So has griping...
...Billy Rose: "I'm willing to give them more money. But this demand would put the Diamond Horseshoe out of business." Warned Joe Howard of the big, garish Zanzibar: "Absurd." There was, the owners hinted, only one alternative: firing the poor, beautiful chorus girls. Monte Proser of the Copacabana even went so far as to send his beauties notices of dismissal. Then all sat back and waited for further word from Caesar...
...knowledge of back-country work, play and superstition the hard way. At home in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, he had grown up like most of the pampered sons of rich sugar growers. He threw around his father's money, traveled in Europe, killed time with other playboys on Copacabana beach. A precocious talent made him a fashionable magazine illustrator before...