Word: lido
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice...
...warm, shallow waters of the Adriatic off smart Lido Beach lapped up with unconcern, last week, a profound secret. Locked in the brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither Semitic nor Aryan, who, before Rome was founded, lived on the fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever...
Hitherto Andorra has been almost inaccessible, tucked away remotely in the Pyrenees. But the syndicate will build motor roads, a railroad, and import the fripperies of Nice, Biarritz and the Lido...
...Lido Girl is a monstrosity. It tells about a Greenwich Village filly who inspires a poet to write a book of poems, also a sculptor to make a nude statue, "The Lido Girl." She then goes around offering herself as inspiration to all and sundry. Finally, leaving a lover panting on the stage, she goes away to Australia...
Actress Louise Groody, plump, frolicsome musical comedy headliner (Good Morning Dearie, Hit the Deck) swam playfully last week, in the fashionable Lido pool on the Champs Elysées, Paris, collapsed naturally, was removed routinely to the American Hospital at Neuilly. The attention she gained so accidentally her press agent put to prompt, broad and good...