Word: flamingo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flamingo Hotel was not wrecked and the death list for all of Dade County is placed at 109 and as a result of the storm the property loss will exceed $100,000,000, yet there is no interruption of business in Miami, and we are very sure that TIME would not consciously add to our difficulties by the publication of exaggerated or untruthful stories emanating from sources that are not reliable. . . . L. W. CROW...
...hours had passed like a distorted dream, and the wind-god raged moaning up the northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
...principal characters in the opera are Archibaldo, an old man who has conquered a small Italian princedom; Manfredo, his son; the Princess Flora, who by the treaty of peace concluded between Archibaldo and the conquered Prince Avito, must break her engagement with the latter and marry Mantredo; and Flamingo, a servant. The opera ends with the tragic death of three of the principals...
...deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo rise from the same lake. During these travels he watched the Tatars taming their wild horses, he saw the two eyes of a man-eating tiger peering at him through the jungle grass; an escaped murderer whom he befriended showed him a deadly battle among tarantulas; he visited a camp...