Word: janeiro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Gastao da Cunha, famed Brazilian diplomat, onetime (1919) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1920) Ambassador to France, onetime Ambassador to Portugal, onetime (1921-22) President of the League of Nations Council; after a long illness, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...Army "Good Will" planes (TIME, March 7), flew in to Montevideo from Buenos Aires. Leaving the harbor soon after, the San Francisco failed to rise from the water, hit a rock. Damage was (slight and soon mended, though ; Lieut. Muir S. Fairchild broke a irib. Soon Rio de Janeiro turned out to welcome* the pilgrims to Brazil...
...Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside smell. It is responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last week in Rio de Janeiro. It became known that a Brazilian admirer, conscious of my flair for describing animals (both domestic and wild) had sent to my hotel an armadillo, a creature for whose origin I facetiously accounted in my Just So story about the porcupine and the tortoise. I kept the gift...
Citizens of Rio de Janeiro fortified themselves for the worst and visited the Zoological Gardens last week. There, in a caged watertank, lay 24 feet and 352 pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which...
...Skirmishing continued throughout the week, and recalled the virtual war waged by retiring President Bernardes during 1924-25 against various perpetually rebellious factions in the provincial states. The Government announced last week with regret that in view of this fresh mutiny the "state of siege" declared at Rio de Janeiro in 1924 to permit censorship of the press and detention of political suspects will be continued indefinitely...