Word: costa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Konrad Bercovici is one of these walrus-mustached foreigners who give a touch of the exotic to the reaches of the Hotel Algonquin, Manhattan. Two new books of his are on the autumn lists?Around the World in New York and lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair...
...Costa Rica. The Costa Rican Constitutional Congress ratified a convention and protocol with the U. S., the terms of which facilitate the work of traveling salesmen...
Hookworm work was carried on during the year in Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Porto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Australia, Fiji, Siam, Ceylon, Mainland India, Mauritius...
...this point the monoeuvres were supposed to begin. They didn't. They were delayed two days by an accident. Costa Rica had been having heavy rain which had prevented proper transmission of its mails. Two U. S. aeroplanes were sent from the Canal Zone to assist Costa Rica. Their duty done, they started home. Diving through the clouds they "stumbled" on the Black Fleet anchored in Chiriqui lagoon off Bocas del Toro. Lieutenant Moon, one of the aviators, circled, counted the ships, and then descending, bombed the aeroplane carrier Langley, making three direct hits with ripe tomatoes. Within an hour...
Signor Benito Mussolini, full of Napoleonic gestures, was born at Varano di Costa on July 29, 1882. He is the son of an iron worker and started life as a laborer. His first important political appearance was at Milan when he was beaten in a parliamentary election by a rich opponent. So angry was he that history records that " he broke the ballot boxes in a fit of petulance." This untoward act caused the police to be inquisitive and Mussolini left for Switzerland...