Word: lido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last ten years dynamic Amanullah has played about the Lido and the French Riviera, although at home he has never been completely forgotten. Last week from India there came belated confirmation that Amanullah was still a potent force on India's Northwest Frontier. Two months ago, it was learned, 3,000 followers of Amanullah gathered in India, crossed the Afghan border near the Khyber Pass and started a march up to Kabul. King Mohammed Zahir Shah is accepted as a true-blue friend of the British, however, and when the British Raj in India threatened to come...
...Prince Alexis Mdivani was auctioned off in Venice. Price: $80. Purchaser: the Prince's sister, Señora José Maria Sert, who overbid a gondolier who wanted to use it as a taxi. Mdivani's onetime wife, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, was loafing at nearby Lido...
...luxury" passenger and commercial line to the east coast of South America, to vie with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Awaiting bids this week on the task of refurbishing the vessels with deck swimming pools, gay Lido decks, more spacious cabins and airconditioning, the Commission was even considering the ingratiating idea of changing the names of the ships to those of the three east coast countries they will visit, starting Sept...
...Proust. Proust and Waugh have at bottom much the same chillingly precise appreciation of high-flown decadence, and the combination of their two techniques here serves the author very well. Waugh-ish are the incidental plot and background, which largely describe the scurryings from London to Paris to the Lido of the richlings who make up the socialite crowd; while Proustian are the devices of memory-association and semi-essayistic progression by which the author relates their fantastic adventures to the placider doings and ruminations of Joseph Smith, the gardener, on his one big day. Having won second prize...
Last week they were in Venice where on the fashionable Lido Beach they entertained the former Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, and her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow.* At a loose end on the last night of their honeymoon the Duke & Duchess hopped into a motorboat, glided through tortuous canals up to the façade of the stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their...