Word: montee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although anything even approaching a comprehensive report was impossible, 10,000 people were known to be homeless; there were 172 identified dead. Heavy were the subscriptions to relief funds, bringing the estimated total to $500,000. Largest individual subscription: $20,000 from Sir Basileios (Basil) Zacharias Zaharoff of Monte Carlo...
The Societe des Bains de Mer de Monaco (Sea Baths Society of Monaco), better known as the Monte Carlo gambling casino syndicate, has its own currency- round and oval celluloid chips (jetons) of various colors and denominations which the Casino sells for cash, to be used at the gaming tables...
Last week Vienna police heard that a comb manufacturer in the suburb of Meidling had a curious and profitable order for 20,000 round celluloid chips. Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent. They found the little celluloid manufacturer patiently, innocently producing...
Merchant Rappaport proved to be a glib gentleman who denied any knowledge of a counterfeiting scheme to loot Monte Carlo. Though he carried genuine casino chips in his pocket, he swore he was the guiltless tool of an unnamed citizen of the U. S.
Last week at Rome, in the Via Monte Zebio, a plump little woman in rusty black clothes stood up to receive the approval of Fascist officialdom, the applause of learned contemporaries, the acclaim of 100 disciples from 21 nations. Dottoressa Maria Montessori had come home, after 16 years, to reinaugurate...