Word: lido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...badly whipped, broken-framed 1936 Oldsmobile to an old sourdough for $750. A few days later the sourdough stopped him on the street and said: "I sure do like that car. It was mighty nice of you to sell it to me." Top nightclub of Anchorage is the Lido Gardens, where dinner is $5 and watery highballs are 75? apiece. But the steak is the best that side of Chicago, the vegetables are quick-frozen and the chef gets $800 a month. The place has no orchestra (manpower shortage) but displays an elegant juke box-and the prettiest Civil Service...
Beside the Po. One day while these things were happening in Rumania, a trimotored bomber with a very determined-looking little Italian at its controls landed at San Nicolo airfield, on the Lido near Venice. Out jumped Benito Mussolini and into an automobile. He drove to ancient Padua, which Attila the Hun sacked and burned in 452 A.D., and there reviewed the motorized Turin division of the Army of the Po. He saw 10,000 soldiers, but 150,000 civilians were on hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored...
...Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt-Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale), the color of swarthy, hard-hitting Colonel Batista is blanco-rojo, or white-red. Last week Dr. Valderrama got his first sitting at the White House. Working with a box of pastel crayons open before him while a Viennese etcher made pencil sketches and the President talked, smoked, worked over...