Word: lido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chattering gaily, the crowds trooped out of the ornate Excelsior Palace Hotel at the Lido last week, and hurried, depending on their circumstances, to their private launches or to the grimy vaporetto to Venice. After four weeks of showings the Second International Motion Picture Exposition was over...
...Grand Hotel with the tramp, tramp of their arrival. Paying guests were vexed as these Teuton sleuths commanded "Stay in your rooms this morning or leave the hotel. Every corridor must be empty when Der Fiihrer arrives." Sharp at 9:45 a. m. Il Duce was at Lido Airport in his favorite grey-green uniform of a Corporal of Honor of the Fascist Militia, perspiring under his black fez with red tassels. Out of a dazzling sky rocketed three Italian pursuit planes escorting two lumbering German airliners. Swooping down to a perfect landing the first German ship nosed up toward...
Captain Henry S. Bauer of the Dollar Liner President Van Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...
After dinner the Prince went for a gondola ride with the younger members of the party and, later, returned to the Lido to the "ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace" where he was staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this...
...into detail in this way it is because this young woman who has been living at the Lido the entire summer quietly and respectably with her mother has been very much upset by the notoriety arising from the incident. REBEKAH W. ELLIOT Venice, Italy...