Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Francis de Croisset, a familiar figure in the U. S.-haunted Ritz bar, tried an epigram: "For women an idea always has a face...
Biggest news of the week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio's front pages were rapt descriptions of how Manhattan welcomed shapely Olga. Rio editors dissertated on the significance of the occasion...
...Correio de Manhā said: "We recently had the honor of entertaining President Hoover, whom we applauded as representing the intelligence, culture and merit of the great American nation. Now we reciprocate by this visit...
...addition to cash prizes, Indianapolis racers win awards for leadership in each lap, awards offered by accessory manufacturers for the successful use of their products-spark plugs, tires, gasoline, ignition. The prize total is high, there is frantic competition. In 1912 Ralph De Palma led for 499 miles, broke down, pushed his car the last mile, finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film...
Mascots were plentiful. Peter de Paolo drove this year, as usual, with his small son's first pair of shoes wired to the front springs...