Word: las
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malamikete de las nacjes Kado, Kado, jam temp' está! La tot' homoze in familje Konunigare...
...love with a young American aviator, Captain Thomas Wallace. They were married in a church-"with a veil and all"-after which she hurried off to Africa. When she saw him in New York the following summer, she found that she hardly knew him. She divorced him in Las Vegas...
...bugle-nosed, professional phony (he has claimed to be the assassin of Rasputin, a son of Victorian Prime Minister Gladstone, a cousin of Czar Nicholas), now a Beverly Hills restaurateur, who gave his age as 48; and Gloria Lister, 24, his ex-secretary; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...scripts had referred to Wyoming as the "most cordial. . . most fertile . . . most primitive" of states, to Utah as the state "where men have as many wives as they can support." In Nevada, the "two principal cities are in competition. In Las Vegas people get married and in Reno they get divorced." New England, said the scripts, was "founded by hypocrisy" and Texas...
...Albert Hibbs and Roy Walford, University of Chicago graduates who last year won $7,500 at Reno with a roulette system of their own devising (TIME, Dec. 1), turned up at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. They played No. 9 for 53 hours, ran their $300 stake up to $1,200, began to lose, switched to 1 and 0. After three days they were still $700 ahead...