Word: lido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come to Genova. Genova is a city of some 650,00 inhabitants, one night club, a Lido with American shower baths, Paganini's violin, 666 places where Columbus slept, an impressive monument to Cristoforo Colombo and the one and only place where he was born. This latter is a small two story stone house with bars over the windows, a noble inscription saying whose house it was and in much bigger letters a warning saying that anyone posting bills here will be prosecuted...
...pajamas, they are from the Lido- in Italy, you know!" confided Mr. Youssef. "Where you American men make a mistake is in letting the women of your country wear comfortable pajamas whenever they wish but never permitting yourselves the comfort of the same easy, cool clothing." With Mrs. Youssef now traveling in Egypt and Mrs. Troyanovsky motoring in California, the two diplomatic summer bachelors last week decorously played bridge. "I don't fish because I haven't the patience," explained Comrade Troyanovsky. "I enjoy crabbing because there you catch something...
...against kissing in public, which is punished with a fine of 10 lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice next morning. To bambini born of this Hymen Harvest, mellow Venetians give the name "Moon Children...
...Reeves and his band will supply the music for the festivities. This orchestra has played at the Havana Country Club, on the Lido, and has recently completed a successful cruise on the French Line...
When newshawks got through to Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair at Long Island's damp Lido Country Club, he was mystified. "The title of our publication denotes a frivolous, satirical periodical," he explained...