Word: morocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss, the Sultan of Morocco, was unable to catch Raisuli, settled the affair by paying a $70,000 ransom to the bandit to release Perdicaris...
Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Slater), 34, cinema sarongstress and leading lady to Hope and Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Morocco, etc.), and second husband William Ross Howard III, 42, wartime A.A.F. major now an advertising executive: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Richard Thompson. Weight...
...such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...
Miss Roberts, a model, then told her simple story. She, too, had been at El Morocco in the small hours, and as she was leaving in a dignified way with a big manufacturing person from Philadelphia, she came within range of Bogart's panda. At this exact moment a funny person asked her if she wanted the beast. She emitted a tinkling laugh and reached for it. Then this awful person, Bogart, charged out of nowhere...
...Lovable Character." The next day the tabloids bloomed with cheesecake and photographs, re-enacting the whole affair for posterity. El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair. It was, the management explained, his second offense -he had once insisted on keeping his hat on and threatened to push his cigarette in a customer's face...