Word: lido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, many another sharp female tongue cut at strait-laced Minister of the Interior Scelba, and his month-old campaign for reform in dress. On city streets and sunlit strands, Scelba's conscientious cops cracked down on bra-top dresses and bathing suits. At Capri and the Lido, dazzling diapered beauties gazed nervously over their strapless shoulders, while the Socialist Avanti, affecting to hear the rustle of churchly robes behind the government's order, cried: "The first arrested will go down in history as martyrs...
...Argentine friends insisted on taking her to the night spots. At the gaudy Lido on the Champs Elysées, there was an embarrassment. Evita, dressed for the first time in black, picked at lobster, watched the floor show. At the show's end two men inside a camel's skin go through various antics under the spotlight; the climax comes when the camel's rear presents a bouquet to a woman spectator. Evita was selected for the honor. She was not amused, stalked out to the sniggers of other diners...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
Last week's regimental dinner paid fitting tribute to a man we midshipmen met at Lido Beach, and a man who holds something more than our respect, Lt. Commander Salmon. He was both an inspirational commanding officer and a gentleman. If your men were your commanding officer, Sir, they would say, as you so often have, "Well done." Smooth sailing, and good luck from the youngest of your past commands...
After a month of almost unbroken silence Company 1 hastens to report that it, too, came up to Boston with Pearson, Pearson, et al of Company 2 from Lido Beach, the new concentration point for SC candidates...